If you'd just up and told me?

（ the thing is, he's not even angry now. not about the fucking him over part, but the hiding it. he knows the score. knows how life is. how their lives are. hard and short and messy, usually. if he sees the other side of thirty he'll be surprised and terrified in equal measure.

he shakes his head. ）

Telling me's basically proof you wouldn't actually do it. If it came to that, it probably would've gone fucking swimmingly.