[He means it, tone genuine and calm, and he offers a small smile to go with it in hopes she'll believe it and relax a little.]
We all just had, you know. Kind of a bad month.
[So he's worried about her, and hadn't really agreed to this whole meeting in order to drink but rather as an excuse to try and figure out just how concerned he should be. He's still not entirely sure.
But since he'd never been planning on this whole thing being a social, fun meetup, she's definitely not doing anything wrong. She still wouldn't have been even if he had planned on that.]
[Action]
[He means it, tone genuine and calm, and he offers a small smile to go with it in hopes she'll believe it and relax a little.]
We all just had, you know. Kind of a bad month.
[So he's worried about her, and hadn't really agreed to this whole meeting in order to drink but rather as an excuse to try and figure out just how concerned he should be. He's still not entirely sure.
But since he'd never been planning on this whole thing being a social, fun meetup, she's definitely not doing anything wrong. She still wouldn't have been even if he had planned on that.]