Nah, that's part of the problem. We fight all the time and he thinks that means there's something wrong between us.

I'll talk to him first. He gets defensive pretty easily, so maybe me coming at him as a friend will get an honest answer out of him.

[He's trying really hard to avoid addressing his lingering feelings for Akira and how that makes this whole thing even more of a clusterfuck. Emotions suck, he doesn't want them anymore.]