at first he would have weirdly liked arguing with her because he was in a similar boat and had only dated passive, sweet darlings in the past. she was basically fire to his gasoline, and as much as he was excited by her there's no way he would have been able to maintain a relationship like that for any real length of time. let's say it was a solid week where she didn't hear anything from him, and there wasn't anything leading up to it to make her think he wasn't interested anymore - no big blow out or anything - so she was blindsided by it and that fuelled her 'why are you such a dick' texts. she could be a brat about it for as long as she wanted tbh, the second he didn't have to hear about it every other day his tolerance skyrocketed and he might low key miss her