Edwin thankfully just thought the stereotype comment was funny. "No, it's fine," he assured her, not wanting her to feel guilty. "I was sassy when I needed to be. I didn't love it, but I liked it a lot better than being bullied. Which, it didn't stop the bullying, but... I don't know, high school is weird! I don't know that it was easier, I have no idea what it would have been like if I did everything differently. I feel like I didn't really understand myself until college, anyway, and even after that I was still figuring things out. Being a person is hard no matter what you do." He shrugged the shoulder of the hand that she wasn't currently working on. "All that is to say, I was who I was in high school, and that's how that went."
Feeling like he was rambling and saying a lot of nothing, he turned the conversation towards her. "What about you? What was high school Kiley like?"