god. just. simon visibly trying to connect the dots between this weird girl who let him into her house so easily and the girl who has been sending him letters with dirty pictures for two years straight. trying to figure out how this girl who is so seemingly bashful about sex is the same one who sent countless polaroids of herself with her hands in her underwear. so he makes an effort to push past fucking with her into actually propositioning her. asks her bluntly about her sex life and tries to put some kind of sincerity into it... the way he eyes her when she stands her ground in front of the hoop, looks her over and tries to figure her out while she gives him absolutely nothing. being so reluctant to let it go even though he knows he needs to. it's hell for him to do it but it feels worse to see her so guarded and detached... simon has never once been romantically sincere in his life but patty completely mystifies him--he's never met a girl like her before. he doesn't understand until later, when he hears the way the asshole jocks speak to her and then it starts to make a little more sense to him why she shutdown every time he broached the subject of sex. and it kind of kills him that patty probably didn't think he was being genuine at all when he was coming onto her. that more likely than not, she thought he was fucking with her the way the other boys seem to. and even if simon hadn't gotten has ass kicked, revenge would've been in order for just that behavior alone.
