[ Okay that does actually manage to get a little bit of a laugh from him. A breathless, short laugh but it's something through all the sniffling.

He nods though. ]

I just... I didn't feel talking would help... [ Everyone's hurting and everyone else's problems seem so much bigger than his... he had cried to Angel and only realized later how insignificant his problems must have been in comparison to hers. Obviously, Angel didn't care, most people didn't. But he felt like a burden and became self conscious. He felt like useless dead weight... and he didn't want to burden people even more with that. ] And I couldn't handle watching more people--

[ And then he stops, looking horrified ]

Wait, who died?! We went to trial, right?! Someone always dies on Friday...!

[ Oh

so he doesn't realize ]