"No, it doesn't," he answers quietly. It feels kind of rotten, actually.

"I don't... I don't want to avoid her forever." He doesn't even really want to avoid her right now, but, "It's just... facing her after even that is gonna sting." It's not a very good reason to hide from her for very long, he knows it, but the trepidation of doing something that he knows isn't going to be pleasant is hard to ignore.