I was about to point out that I was serious, too, but decided it was probably not the best idea to antagonize him any more than he already was.
“What the f**k did I do?” Cooper asked, spreading his hands wide.
“What are you talking about?”
“You've been avoiding me for weeks!”
It was then that I realized that I was hurting Cooper in a different way. It wasn't a punch in the face, but ignorance can hurt as much as an insult.
I sighed. “It's not you. It's all me. I've been seeing someone. Turns out the Larkin approach didn't work out, and I've been trying to do that and keep up with work.”
A big grin spread over Coop's face. “That's great, man! Why didn't you just tell me?”
“I got the funny feeling that you wouldn't quite approve of her,” I said, tiptoeing around the hard truth.
“You'
