"How crappy." If not entirely unjustified, as Natalie would've grudgingly had to admit. This had to be the first time that someone sounded like they were giving up on her before the relationship even had any kind of official status.

"I seem to remember that when I did try to volunteer my thoughts on the things that you so wanted me to talk about," she added, after a pause, "I got nothing but variations of 'yeah I got it' in return, so. No one's perfect, right?"