( oh, when his memories start coming back to him, he is going to feel like absolute shit for this. just for this to start, until some of those other memories start sliding back in, but that's a whole damned different story from now.

he does, at the very least, look apologetic when those words start coming out of the blond's mouth, because if he'd come to check on him — just because he'd heard about the accident, however that had happened — it means there's something he's still missing as far as piecing his memories back together goes, but a total stranger wouldn't reach out to him like this. ) Oh.

( it sounds. both confused and sorry even as the line of his mouth pulls into something of a half-smile, trying his best to be reassuring. and even more apologetic. ) Yeah, car crash. Everythin' up here got pretty scrambled. ( he taps the side of his head. ) I don't remember much at all right now, but thanks for checkin' up on me. Real nice of you. ( a bit of a pause.

never mind that someone you just went to school with wouldn't bother checking in on you after you've been in an accident, but that's neither here nor there. )

So, school huh?