"No it wouldn't have. Third time behind JJ.. ugh." He twists the bottle, face growing red as he realizes he'd admitted something he hadn't meant to admit.

"It's stupid..! I just thought.. your step sequences were good and you were so angry last year about losing and I wanted... you started crying and it pissed me off because you shouldn't have been crying..!"

He fiddled more with the bottle, wanting to escape. "I was.. ...angry that you were just going to quit like that..."