"Don't worry about it. Anyway it's probably not the 'being a jerk' you're having trouble with. You don't take losing people well, do you?"

She pauses here, to smoke the last bit of her cigarette. It was almost like she'd been purposely ignoring it, and it had burned away while they chatted. She crushed the butt underneath her heel while she spoke.

"It's cool; most people don't. It's when you start taking it well you should be worried." Penelope herself is far, far past that point, and its in her reluctance to look at him as she says it that delivers that point home.