[Jade is so, so nice and Jake wants to take her up on the offer but he doesn't know what he'll do if (when) Jade hates him. If Jade hated him, too, then what would he do? She's only the person he's been waiting years and years to finally see. No big deal. Just the family he always wanted might wind up hating him and he wouldn't even blame her for it.]

Um, golly, it's... really stupid and convoluted? And all over romance, basically, ugh I really can't believe we were such dunderheads over romance... [He trails off.] ...You don't, um— have to? Listen, I mean, it's just— I pretty much alienated everyone and... It blew heaving chunks.