"Yes I told her!" He was starting to yell, but more like a kid that wanted to be heard. "Because things get weird when I get close...like her feelings rub off this shit on me and I can't. I'll fry like KFC chicken in a bat of oil." That seemed the most obvious explanation. Even more obvious now was he hadn't used an ounce of influence on Zoe. Well, except when he was exhausted and he wanted to keep her close. Those times he didn't even know it was throwing itself around.
"I like...being with her. You know friendship and that shit." Lust wouldn't understand it.