I'm not your... [ Dramatically sighs. ] Really, Mary?! You're not going to let that go are you? [ The age thing bothers him more than he thinks it should. Still he grins, because she has him with trying to pull of swimming with a surf board. ] I still think your memory is wrong.
{Steve nods and swallows. He's not surprised to hear that it doesn't get any better, he didn't really think it ever would although he had hoped, but then, how could it? ] Yeah. I do too. I uh... I still can't really believe that she's gonna, you know?
He... He said he had his reasons. [ It's not really a defence but it's all that Steve has to hold onto. His Dad told him that he wouldn't be in contact for a while, but it's been over three weeks and he's not heard from him. It stings, a lot, that he's not called to at least see how he's doing. ]