[It's surprising that this guy isn't falling for any of the bait Billy's been throwing at him. But it just makes him want to push harder, to find where those boundaries are to push against them until the guy, til Rogers, snaps back.]
Home is San Diego. You think I'd consider a hick shithole in Indiana home? Buncha dumb hicks that can't count past the fingers on their own hands.
My people expect me to be what I am back there in Hawkins, so that's what I'm going to be for them.
[Very careful choice of wording there. He was only going to stay like that for the ones that came from Hawkins. He had a better chance at redeeming himself with the people here that didn't know him as well. That offered him the chance Hawkins wouldn't, and couldn't, give him.]
San Diego has beaches. Surf that you can ride a board on. Sunsets you can't get in Indiana. Long stretches of open road and sky you can lose yourself under as you just drive the coastline. I can't get that shit in fucking Indiana.
no subject
Home is San Diego. You think I'd consider a hick shithole in Indiana home? Buncha dumb hicks that can't count past the fingers on their own hands.
My people expect me to be what I am back there in Hawkins, so that's what I'm going to be for them.
[Very careful choice of wording there. He was only going to stay like that for the ones that came from Hawkins. He had a better chance at redeeming himself with the people here that didn't know him as well. That offered him the chance Hawkins wouldn't, and couldn't, give him.]
San Diego has beaches. Surf that you can ride a board on. Sunsets you can't get in Indiana. Long stretches of open road and sky you can lose yourself under as you just drive the coastline. I can't get that shit in fucking Indiana.