Heron Lake Plateau [M] the red and the black

What happened? she asked, and he could only shrug and look at the dirt at his feet. Screech wasn't a quiet person usually, and had even begun reverting to his usual obnoxious self during this short visit with Raven, but the memory of Sorina made him clam up a little bit all over again. Then he  murmured, She said — but cut himself off before he could finish the sentence, which would've concluded as: 'She said I fucked her,' which he wasn't comfortable saying near Raven for some reason. He didn't know what that meant. Up until that point in his life Screech had thrown around naughty language without caring if it made sense or offended people, he did it for shock value. With Sorina had used it, it had been in the form of an accusation, and it didn't make sense.

Without explaining, he fell quiet and pulled away from his sister. But it wasn't for long; he paced around her and asked, Here, stand up, and whether she followed his request or not, he went on to explain that weird day. I can't remember what we fought about, but I remember we kind of... He waffled a bit for the right term, and in the end couldn't come up with anything, so he began to act it out. She didn't like when I did this, and he jumped up, innocently landing his chest on the small of Raven's back if it was there.