( he could get into the whole bullshit about how oliver hasn't lived on his own since he was nine years old; he'd been in a dorm with a shit roommate for the first couple weeks of school, before got moved into pierce's. spent the entire time at bcu with pierce, then spent the two years following mooching off of nick in his shitty little apartment. how oliver doesn't want to live in a tiny-assed room inside a stupid shop that he barely even likes. how he likes having a significant amount of space to wander in if he feels like it, how he doesn't actually like living at nate's much because nate has so many people around him and oliver's new and he hates feeling like he's playing second to someone else. oliver wants to be first. but nate's got his boyfriend in another room and he likes that caleb, too, but it's different because they're over there and oliver's. on his own.

but that's a conversation that he doesn't want to have with caleb especially given their occasional sex friends but definitely not therapist and patient relationship. that's not even a conversation he's having with nick, because he knows how nick would react to it.

so oliver just. sits down on the bed next to caleb. presses his lips together in a tight line for a moment, before he's reaching a hand up to his ear and starts unscrewing one of the piercings, before he's. looking over to caleb again. )

So if I start losing it, you can, what? Turn it off? Because the last thing I want to do is react without thinking and burn half your face off or something.