"What?" Oliver managed to look playfully incredulous, tilting his head back as if he couldn't quite believe that, though his mouth blatantly twitched upward. "I am nice. And a little weird. You take the good with the bad." He nudged Marco lightly with his foot and winked before taking a sip from his bottle of water. It gave him another few seconds to figure out a way to try and explain things in a better way, more how he was feeling. They'd touched on it in the past, but he knew Marco well enough that repeating key points was almost second nature now.
"If it helps, we can look at it like I'm payin' it forward. Someone was kind enough to give a damm and help me the way I helped you. Maybe someday, you'll be in a position to do the same thing for somebody else. And then they can do it for someone."