Suzaku's forced calmness was still being broken by lingering snickers, especially at the clever retort he'd just thought of. "I don't wreck the bell curve, because you balance me out at the other end." He was proud of himself, statistics not really being his thing and all. "You don't just not spend every waking moment exercising, you spend no moments exercising."
He wished he could have distracted Lelouch from the other thing with that comment, but he was only postponing the inevitable. He knew Lelouch wasn't going to let it go, and if he just answered "nothing," the other boy would keep asking and probably get irritated in the process. So Suzaku could get it over with now, or try to evade the question and end up answering it later to an already-irritated Lelouch. Might as well bite the bullet. Why couldn't he just have controlled himself properly in the first place?
"Um, well, I just don't think you made a very good argument against taking care of kids. Because those are the kind of things I already have to put up with." Oh God, he couldn't believe he'd just indirectly called his Prince noisy, self-centered, demanding, and all those other things. Maybe, just maybe, Lelouch would assume he was talking about the other people he had to deal with sometimes and not just Lelouch himself. Probably not. "I mean, some people would think so, at least." Nice cover, Suzaku. Nice. Why wasn't lunch over yet? Why wasn't the floor opening up and swallowing him down into a pit of eternal darkness? Why couldn't he just redo the last five minutes of his life? Not like he hadn't thought that a thousand other times.
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He wished he could have distracted Lelouch from the other thing with that comment, but he was only postponing the inevitable. He knew Lelouch wasn't going to let it go, and if he just answered "nothing," the other boy would keep asking and probably get irritated in the process. So Suzaku could get it over with now, or try to evade the question and end up answering it later to an already-irritated Lelouch. Might as well bite the bullet. Why couldn't he just have controlled himself properly in the first place?
"Um, well, I just don't think you made a very good argument against taking care of kids. Because those are the kind of things I already have to put up with." Oh God, he couldn't believe he'd just indirectly called his Prince noisy, self-centered, demanding, and all those other things. Maybe, just maybe, Lelouch would assume he was talking about the other people he had to deal with sometimes and not just Lelouch himself. Probably not. "I mean, some people would think so, at least." Nice cover, Suzaku. Nice. Why wasn't lunch over yet? Why wasn't the floor opening up and swallowing him down into a pit of eternal darkness? Why couldn't he just redo the last five minutes of his life? Not like he hadn't thought that a thousand other times.