[Ronan laughs cruelly- it's not really like he's had to work for much either, but he knows something of pain that these other boys couldn't imagine. It's a different sort of pain than Adam's, one that's more pinpointed on a single event than it is an undercurrent of his entire life, but it's still a feeling that they both share. He senses it, and he thinks that somewhere Adam senses it too.

Of course, he's poor here too, but that's even harder to parse- it's not something that's often in the forefront of his mind, like it's something that he almost forgets from one second to the next. That would bother him more than it does, but the concern slips away like everything else.]

Careful, or your judgy bullshit will give them something else to do coke about.

[He says, but it's with a grin.]

Anyway, don't take their shit. You don't have to be a doormat to stay in school, you know.