Wary now of this very rude and irritable individual, Steven kept his distance. He didn’t need his hand nearly crushed for a second time—and he didn’t intend to make any moves that would result in that happening. Of course, if worse came to worst, he always had his Pokemon to back him up.
"Well…I chose you to be it because I wanted to play the game. Would there be any other reason? You reacted quite distastefully, however, and now I’m not really in the mood to play anymore…" Heartbroken. Positively shattered. That’s what he was.
"You’re mean."
Ohboy. Miscommunication. Or maybe his own lack of knowledge in this case.
"Apologies." Julius carefully avoided making eye contact because wow, was this embarrassing. He'd long since trained himself to be free of nervous ticks, but this was probably the kind of situation that would make most people unconsciously tuck hair behind their ears.
"My understanding is that tag is a... form of recreation that takes place between friends. I didn't know that the rules allowed for one to simply tag strangers off the street."
