[He listens to him, staying almost deathly silent, watching and taking the words in,]

I got rejected. I asked someone to the ball and they rejected me. It's not a lie, there, I told you what could possibly be bothering me, but isn't because at the moment you are bothering me!

I am trying to prove this theory and you are distracting me.

[He messes up his hair with his hands and tugs at it for a moment.]