April jumped high when Eliot slammed his fist into the table, grabbing her computer out of the way as he got up so he wouldn't step on it. Or kick it, the thought occurred to her that he might.
Putting the computer on the bed, April went to calm Cody down. "Eliot, calm down!" she said firmly. "You're scaring Cody."
"Now go and get some paper to wipe up the coffee you spilled." She wouldn't debate with him when he was in this stage, he could calm down first and then she'd talk some sense into him. Make him see that the important part of the news was that Savannah and John were alive, not that they'd been lied to.