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Is that true though? You can't tell but he seems concerned enough about the situation, and you did rather surprise him out of the blue like this, for him to be scheming up some grand lie about everything. The more you look at him though, the more you can understand why you may have approached and tried to get to know him, in a drunken state; he looks a lot like your ex-boyfriend Anthony from high school. Well, not really ex-boyfriend or even ex-anything really, you were supposed to go to prom together but he stood you up. Nothing more than that but it certainly did a number to your heart!
In the condition you were in last night then, you can imagine how you might have made a fool of yourself with him. But that doesn't fully explain...
<span class="mu-s">"Maybe it could have gone that way-"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"-you're lucky it didn't."</span>
Reasserting your grip, you're not strong enough to intimidate or anything but you can withdraw your hand from him holding you, and bring it to rest with your other hand on the table. Not that you need to intimidate him you don't think, as he's clearly worried and uncertain about you and the whole situation.
<span class="mu-s">"That's not what I... I'm saying, I figured there was something going on with you, maybe more than just drunk? So I walked us out of there to my boat, nicer and quieter for you at least."</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Nicer and quieter so we could... I mean, you could..."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"-you fell apart in my arms! Maybe we could've gone together, but there wasn't any chance... I-I don't know what happened Carrie. I'm sorry, maybe I had too much to drink as well? Seeing things... I thought you needed help, so I went to get help... I'm sorry I left you."</span>
Without your own hand for some comfort or support, his hands are free to take his head in them as he tries to remember what happened and process it. Clearly it's been weighing on him enough to affect him like this, but then would you expect much differently from anyone else? Anyone normal at least. If he's to be believed, maybe he wasn't entirely noble in his efforts to help you out when you were a drunken mess. Although you probably didn't make it easy for him to refuse where things would have gone by the sound of your behavior (and what you can vaguely remember), that's still no excuse when you weren't in your right mind. But either way, to get as far as that and then experience firsthand the person you're with being superhumanly different? With no other way to perceive it other than your body almost literally melting in his arms?
