Cass took the pipe and used the ember that was still burning to get deeper into the bowl with a long, deep hit. He thought to Soren, "It wasn't your fault, I should have spoken up when I first had that bad feeling that you two were dating." His eyes were closed when he exhaled, and he handed the pipe back. "When you came home and I was baking those brownies. When you asked me what was wrong and I gave you a roundabout excuse instead of my actual feelings. Maybe we always gave each other awful, halfassed reasons for why the people we were dating, because we knew better in a baser way."