"Look, if he told you point-blank that he doesn't want you, he doesn't like or love you, and you know him well enough to believe him, then fine," he allows. Then again, Michael screamed at the love of his life that he didn't love him.

Thank fuck Alex could see through his miserable lying.

"I just think that living isn't so great if it's just going through the bullshit motions. From experience," he allows, because he definitely did that a lot.