Will looked down at his hands. "I know you dint forget me, not on purpose," he said. "Just... I had a lot of time for the doubt to creep in. Hated myself for even thinking it of you, but I couldn't..." He shook his head. Each word was like pulling teeth, but these ones he owed Tuck. "An' I thought, like. Like, maybe you was right to. Like maybe there weren't a need for me anymore."