no subject

[What? Nothing about the beatdown? Not a single word? Not even some brief acceptance that maybe it scarred the kid more than he wants to let on? To an extent he's only now, a whole year later, willing to acknowledge? Maybe that has nothing to do with them as lovers at all and Freddy's only using it as justification for his own weak convictions. Is that possible? After enduring what he did just for his mission anything's possible. That everything up to now is his fault is possible. Freddy swallows a hard sore feeling in his throat.]

I want to move out.

[The words come out rushed like he's not even sure he really wanted to say them, but there they are.]