[ one day he'll bring this up and you'll be tallied some late judging points, but not today.

once the coffee is poured, derek follows isaac and sits down as well, though he doesn't reach for the coffee. ]

I thought, for a few days after we last spoke that maybe it would be better if I was. For all of us. [ he doesn't quite look at isaac when he talks, his tone as if he's admitting something bad. which, he imagines, he is since it's probably not something isaac wants to hear.

but he's quick to continue. ] But then I went home. [ "went". dreamed of home-- however it works here. ] I only just woke up. What happened there made me reconsider being done with you. Or Erica.

[ he'd say especially erica but in the end it applies to both of them equally, just in very drastically different ways. ]