"No. I'd have felt better if I fought you for it too." Instead, Kyle'd broken his nose and then turned around and said, we're friends and Jim had no idea what to do with that. With the patterned violence/anger that felt like a push, and the inevitable way he'd drawn him in again to lay friendship down on the table. But it always felt like it was part of the game. That's why he's so angry, why he has a hard time believing anything Kyle even says. He doesn't know what's real, it's like living in a house of mirrors.