[He presses his lips into a line, eyebrows quirking at her remark. He tries to ensure that people -- all people, even Jem -- hold a poor opinion of him, even if part of him sometimes wished the opposite, and another part found irritation in assumptions being made based on his other habits, real or fictional.]
If it weren't such a nice day, I'd be offended by that. [Since moving to London, he'd always found he preferred the inevitable grey and rain that seemed to accompany most days than the sun, and here was no exception. It wasn't that he disliked the sun -- far from it, in fact -- he just found it wasn't particularly interesting as far as weather went, and people expected far more socialising when it was bright and warm.] But you're in luck; I'm feeling far too lazy to bother.
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If it weren't such a nice day, I'd be offended by that. [Since moving to London, he'd always found he preferred the inevitable grey and rain that seemed to accompany most days than the sun, and here was no exception. It wasn't that he disliked the sun -- far from it, in fact -- he just found it wasn't particularly interesting as far as weather went, and people expected far more socialising when it was bright and warm.] But you're in luck; I'm feeling far too lazy to bother.