Somewhere between the way Alex reacts to those words and the feeling of Manes' hand on his thigh, and Kyle starts to realize that he is in way over his head. Not because he's playing some game with Alex at the worst possible time, but because he's realized that in his stress and with the help of alcohol, he's being way too honest. More than he ever planned to be with how things have been over the last few months, before this morning and after.

"I..." He takes another drink, knowing he could laugh this off, maybe piss Alex off and blow this all off and go back to drinking until the pair of them passed out. "It's the truth, Manes. You've always been hot. What scared me the most," he says, knowing that he's breaking the mood of teasing and joking but he's too fucking tired of everything to play games. "And I'm keeping up my tradition of being a dick and saying this right now," he admits, pushing the bottle at Alex before he starts chugging.