"I'm not Gael, is why." Leon muttered through clinched teeth, "he's occupied somewhere else, doing fuck knows what as long as it isn't around me."

He was starting to get angry, he realized, between bouts of self-induced misery. Why had he said it? Why had he just blurted it out like that? Leon's already blood-shot eyes began to burn again as tears built up. Angrily he reached up and scrubbed his face, pulling away from Michi.

"Go away."