[ He's not 1000% comfortable spilling this information in Kitty's place but Chekov deserves to know a few things at least. ]
Before we got together, she was with Tyki. Their breakup was ugly — really ugly — but me and Kitty still started dating just a short while after. She didn't stop meeting up with him, either. Not for the longest time.
[And that put more of a strain on the relationship than she ever seemed to realize, even when he asked her not to spend so much time with the prison's resident murderer. ]
If she already likes you... I don't know. Maybe it won't take as long for her to bounce back as you might think.
[ He's expecting a blue band by next week, to be honest. ]