"I never got the chance, Dave." He didn't mean it like a chance to bully. "I never got the chance to tell you that the way you look is fine. I wouldn't have treated you any differently." Then again, John is twenty years old. John was fifteen back then and he knew he was capable of saying some really awful stuff. He probably would have been shocked, and unsure of what to think, but he isn't sure what his reaction would have bveen at that age.

John raised his brow. "I just didn't want you to leave angry, or to think I was angry."