"Yes!" Diego answers too quickly and looks up at Ravi like he's been caught. Diego's never very hard to read, and he already feels exposed. He clears his throat and tries to sound more level than he feels. "It's, uh, you know. Whatever." Diego falls back on the nonsense words he had picked up at Gooseberry. Ofelia still scolds him every time he says whatever, like it's a curse word. He uses no-maj-y slang less and less when he's mirroring Ravi's formal speech pattern.

"I used to be really easy," he finally says, aiming for casual, landing in ashamed.