NATE
"You think you can tell me to be calm when you started this bullshit thing?" Nate snarls, even as he pulls himself back, swallowing down the bluster to stand on the playing ground Sam lays out. The neighbours will know he has no qualms about screaming in the street, but he has to be met evenly to feel good about it, and he can tell by the steel in Sam's voice and spine that he wasn't going to get that here.
Swallowing once more, Nate lets out a breath through his nose and licks his lips, softening the path for his next words. "I'm just not a fan of being threatened with slander for no reason. I think you can agree that it would make you... tense." His voice is only just barely steady the whole time, a veneer of civility that is, for the moment, sturdy and solid. "Let me come in, and we can... exchange our perspectives here, huh?"
Swallowing once more, Nate lets out a breath through his nose and licks his lips, softening the path for his next words. "I'm just not a fan of being threatened with slander for no reason. I think you can agree that it would make you... tense." His voice is only just barely steady the whole time, a veneer of civility that is, for the moment, sturdy and solid. "Let me come in, and we can... exchange our perspectives here, huh?"
You got me actin' like the old me
But you don't even know me
But you don't even know me
