"If you know that someone hates you anyway, why try to please them? You can annoy them instead. It's more likely to be satisfying." Why try to gain impossible approval when one could upset and provoke? He was falling into a similar pattern with his mother lately too. He didn't think he could get what he wanted so instead, he tried to get to her. It didn't work though.

After all, she was much better at getting to him than he was at getting to her.

He held the cold pack to his face and gave Bobby a look. "And that all makes sense for you, does it?"