"They won't hate you, Leon." Maybe they would though. She had no idea what kind of people Leon's parents were and if they would do something awful after finding this out. But she switched gears when she saw that he had started crying, saying that everyone will hate him.

"Hey... Leon, come here..." Rowan wasn't exactly high on Leon's friend list, she was sure, but he was in pain, and intoxicated in some form or another, and had just experienced an emotional upheaval. His responses pulled at her emotions and there was only one real response she could even think of that will help. She gently moved to put her arms around his shoulders and pull him in. Not tight, not even very close, but the only think she could think of to do and try and comfort him was... well, to hug him.

"It'll be alright, Leon. It's OK. No one will hate you. I certainly won't. It will be alright, just relax..." She hoped she wasn't overstepping her bounds here, or that he would misconstrue things. She really, honestly and truly, just wanted to help him.