[ Uh, rude? Wow they were talking about you not him. This is biphobia. ]

My best friends helped me get out of jail; think there's anything I'd keep from them?

[ (He absolutely has kept his mouth shut about a lot of trauma because it wasn't the time, because he hadn't known how to begin to process it, because because because. He has good reasons for dabbling in hypocrisy. Pidge's problem is a lot broader, a problem he can take a sledgehammer to rather than scalpel his myriad lingering loose threads.)

Equipment unboxed, Ren seamlessly switches to filling a temperature-controlled kettle with water and setting it to boil, glancing back to Pidge with no discernable change in his demeanor. ]

A necessary one. I don't need to know either of you well to see that you're assuming you know how your friend feels.

[ Quit that. It leads nowhere good okay. ]