[ he looks down at his lap. ] I wish. [ another laugh. ] I had been bullied by just about everybody and I… I guess I just kind of accepted that that’s how things were going to be. [ scrunching the material of his robes he shuts his eyes. ] I'm kind of a mess, though, like you, I don't like letting people know as much. I don’t like fighting, e- even now, but I didn’t have a whole lot of confidence, so… [ people pushed him around. ] My friends just taught me things I don’t think I would have learned otherwise.