Lloyd was the one that had asked for this meeting, not the other way around. So yes, James was closed off, he was hostile. The reason he felt the way he felt right now was because, for a long time, he had stopped being that person, and seeing as how this was where that had gotten him, he'd decided it was probably for the best if he just went back to the way he was before. It was easier to keep yourself together if you just avoided caring in the first place.
James' jaw shifted as Lloyd spoke, his tongue running along his teeth inside his mouth. The mental image of Lloyd as a huge penis was a funny one, but not enough to even get him to crack a smile, much less laugh about it, even if it was, at the very least, acknowledged inwardly. "Don't marry Garret." That was a simple enough response, though certainly not one that he felt Lloyd would expect and definitely not one that he would concede to.