basically he’s feeling that him associating with her will end up being a burden to her. It’s the classic romcom trope of the MC jumping to a conclusion on their own and thinking that the right course of action is to avoid the love interest, leading to manufactured drama. You’re not alone, this trope is really annoyingI suppose I'm too old to understand what he's feeling because this chapter just annoyed me.![]()
This would be solid advice if adult romcoms didn’t also have these unnecessary tropesThese tropes happen because high schoolers are stupid and immature and do stupid and immature shit on the daily. It's fine to find things like this annoying, but if one does, one is perhaps better served reading romcoms involving adults.