[It's a childish retort. Jin hates how much he sounds like the ten-year-old he was just a little while ago, but he's so taken aback by Asher's worrying that he can't think of anything else.]
Just-- [he breathes out, short, through his nose,] just pretend I never called you, all right?
[He's not going to just drop his emotional baggage on a guy he barely knows. It's his own issue to deal with, and as heavily as all of it weighs on his heart, all of the wounds fresh once more with the five years he's shed, it's not Asher's problem. It's his. And he'll figure it out without anyone's help.]
I'm eighteen. [And he jokes back, weakly,] I'll land on my feet.
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[It's a childish retort. Jin hates how much he sounds like the ten-year-old he was just a little while ago, but he's so taken aback by Asher's worrying that he can't think of anything else.]
Just-- [he breathes out, short, through his nose,] just pretend I never called you, all right?
[He's not going to just drop his emotional baggage on a guy he barely knows. It's his own issue to deal with, and as heavily as all of it weighs on his heart, all of the wounds fresh once more with the five years he's shed, it's not Asher's problem. It's his. And he'll figure it out without anyone's help.]
I'm eighteen. [And he jokes back, weakly,] I'll land on my feet.