He doesn't. He's too busy reading over Tyler's text.

Steven Durante smiles.

It matters to me if they're all liars too but admittedly that's only because it means that I've been spending my entire life trying to pretend to be something that doesn't exist in nature and doesn't come naturally to me

I almost said for nothing but I suppose the polite fictions of society are reason enough I guess but at least I wouldn't have felt vaguely bad I had to lie to do it

He plucks the joint from Tyler's fingers and takes another pull from it.

But honestly I'm sure you don't care about my damage and I mostly care about yours as a way to gauge who I should be with you anyway