"Right before that you told me to leave you alone, I was agreeing with you. What else was I supposed to do? You did tell me I was sick because I was thinking about the last time we attended one of those dinners."

It came out sounding a lot more hurt than he intended, "Then, after all that you told me you hated me." And that was the last time they said more than a perfunctory greeting to each other for five and a half years.