"Well,there was this one story I was thinking of?"
"Besides,I want to talk about it, the problem is no-one seems to want to listen, they all want to pretend it didn't happen".
No-one?
Well,in this case I think he means Brian doesn't want to talk about it!
Brian was the one who told him: "Don't think about it."
Well,I think Justin wanted to talk about the bashing with Brian because Brian lived through it too and is, for obvious reasons, the only one who could understand, but at the same time he knows that talking about it will only hurt Brian, and so he can't talk to Brian the way he could to a dispassionate outsider.
"I thought Rage didnt believe in love?" " We'll let him think that"