Jean-Paul, please don't throw around things like facts right now. Still, he supposed he should take this seriously.

"Jean-Paul, please," he said, voicing his earlier exasperation, though trying to keep his tone patient, "I'm not in a good place either. This age is hard for me, in more ways than you can fathom. There's things you don't know, that you don't get, about my life in this moment. So if someone was willing to give me even the momentary comfort of a distraction, I can live with that. But that was me and him, and this is me and you. And I'd like to still be your friend."