Ed was so happy the girl was naive. No one else would believe his obvious lie, but she seemed to really sincerely did. "People like to mess with me cause they know I'm better than them." He said offhandedly as he was already walking.

The boy immediately shook his head, "it'll hurt if you mess with it. It'll go away eventually. It always does!" He said without clarifying. "I thought we'd hang out at my secret place.' He actually had several but this was his second favorite. He wouldn't show anyone his top favorite.

"I don't know what to do, but I'm sure you can come up with something. I just wanna do stuff.' And he didn't like being alone.