He rambled on to max letting him know of Bell's recital schedule change, but not really giving a clear reason why.  His schedule was clear to attend the game for sure now, but actually going seemed to be harder than Angel thought it would be. telling Max, a friend he had for some time was a hard thing, letting everyone else know would be twice as hard and Angel knew it was him going about things in an unnecessarily difficult way.  "I'll talk to you later Max."  he sounded frustrated when he hung up.  And leaned against the counter staring at his cell phone long after he hung up.