And you thought that hiding it from me would make it better?

( waiting until he was far away — too far to see kamo-kun, to support them, to be there for them when he knows that they didn't want to be left alone in the first place, and it's only now that he can quite understand the depth of why that likely is. it's... it's not something that he appreciates, to say the least. to have his choices taken from him, and to be removed from a situation before he's told anything about it. )

Guess you really wanted to stretch out how stressed you could keep me for as long as possible, huh.

( never thought of ripping off the band-aid so amami could get over it all at once, did he. )