Billy shot Bart a disapproving look at his statement. "Why have you not talked to her?" He didn't mean for his tone to be as curt as it ended up though, and took a moment to take a deep calming breath before continuing.
"I mean," he began again, much more sympathetically, "if you two aren't talking to each other about what happened, you are both going to get the idea that the other is mad at you, even if it's not true. The worst thing that could happen right now is for you two to not be speaking."