Leon bowed his head slightly. "Thank you." Then it was his turn to listen to Kitty, quietly, not saying a word.
I guess, in a way, we're pretty alike, he thought, taking in every word the girl said. Which, when I first met her, isn't something I'd admit to myself honestly. I really am like a child.
He nodded when she had finished. "Yes. Sometimes the fear get's forgotten, or appears to have gone, and the person in question can move on, stronger than he or she was before. But sometimes it can make a person bitter or scared. And that isn't something I want to happen to me. So...by acting like a complete jerk, it's my stupid way of trying to let things go. I wonder if Soph would accept that as a pathetic apology if I told her? Or would anyone, for that matter?"