Because regardless of what he believes, I valued and cared about him that much so as not to hurt him even more. It was and has been much easier for him (alongside Goddess and Predator who have been the only witnesses of this uncategorized thing between him and I from the beginning) to think I was an arrogant, self-centered bitch. Once again, I let it be as I turned around and went back into the shelter of the artifical heat by the radiators inside the building while I hoped no one noticed an old wound that bled no more was tingling inside me.