[excuse you his daddy issues are COMPLETELY different]

There's a difference between paying a person attention because he's useful to you and paying him attention because you like him.

[Which is sort of funny, isn't it, because he'd started looking at Ling as the former, and now . . . no, it's still the former. Just because they're having fun doesn't stop making this a useful connection to make.]

But hey: I'll take youthful rebellion. People don't usually take me out to dinner for it, you're a nice change.