"Are we actually having this conversation?" Cal asks. "Really? I can't just not feel like hanging around? Do you hear how insane you sound?"

That's bottom-of-the-barrel ammunition and he knows it, but he desperately does not want to have this conversation.

"Fine. You know what? This isn't fourth grade and I don't have to like all your friends. All I have to do is be polite. Which I was. So get over it."