I don't have it in me to lecture you even if I wanted to.

[ and she doesn't particularly feel like it. in all honesty, elena is very tired of being put in the middle by two men. she's not a tennis ball to knock back and forth in a court. she's not a pawn to be used to pit against one another. grown men can work their own shit out without a teenage girl who's dead tired getting in the middle of it. ]

He felt like you implied something… indecent was happening between the two of us. I don't know what you said, but I'm assuming you were trying to look out for me. [ she gives him a kind, tired smile. ] I can look out for myself.