It's probably a pointless thing to be spending time on. Eduardo is well aware of it, the thought making one corner of his mouth hitch up a little higher in a wry smile. Here on an island in their absence, in the absence even of Facebook, the Winklevosses are even more irrelevant than they were back home while Mark was creating the site. He's quick to want to stay on the topic, though, or at least stay close to it, this easy middle ground far more comfortable than venturing back into anything more personal, especially when it's likely inevitable that they'll wind up having to do the latter anyway. Underneath all the hurt and the anger is the same desire he's always had, to hold on to Mark, to remain important regardless of what tension might linger between them (and chances are that tension will last for a good long while). If this is as close to normal as the two of them can get, then he intends to make the most of it. They'll have time, here, anyway. Whatever happens, that's something he can't allow himself (and so far hasn't been able) to lose sight of. Were this a one-time occurrence to have everything out, then it might be a different story, but Mark's as stuck here as he is, now. It isn't like he means to come crawling back, but he hardly thinks he can be blamed for wanting to maintain what pleasantness he can while it lasts.
"Well, at least it's over," he says with an easy shrug, watching as Mark finishes off more of his beer, but not wanting to comment on it. He'd been just as desperate for it himself; he's hardly in a position to judge. Whatever Mark might be thinking right now, Eduardo has no way of guessing (something that's a little unnerving, but not altogether uncommon, with as beyond him as Mark's thought processes sometimes are), but he's sure that he can't be the only one mentally straying into the past more often than he'd like. Based on what was said earlier, he doesn't actually think Mark to be entirely unrepentant, though he also isn't sure if that's just wishful thinking, projecting the way he has so many times in the past. Whether it's with himself or with others, he knows, now, that he has a tendency to give Mark more credit than he's probably due, but that doesn't stop him from doing it. "Not that... it would really make a lot of difference in showing up here, but, I mean, having left behind a lot that was unfinished... It's good that you got to wrap all that up."
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Date: 2011-05-21 12:33 am (UTC)"Well, at least it's over," he says with an easy shrug, watching as Mark finishes off more of his beer, but not wanting to comment on it. He'd been just as desperate for it himself; he's hardly in a position to judge. Whatever Mark might be thinking right now, Eduardo has no way of guessing (something that's a little unnerving, but not altogether uncommon, with as beyond him as Mark's thought processes sometimes are), but he's sure that he can't be the only one mentally straying into the past more often than he'd like. Based on what was said earlier, he doesn't actually think Mark to be entirely unrepentant, though he also isn't sure if that's just wishful thinking, projecting the way he has so many times in the past. Whether it's with himself or with others, he knows, now, that he has a tendency to give Mark more credit than he's probably due, but that doesn't stop him from doing it. "Not that... it would really make a lot of difference in showing up here, but, I mean, having left behind a lot that was unfinished... It's good that you got to wrap all that up."