"Once I start something I'll finish it." --> "I did nothing on our last project together because... I never started! Ta-daaah!"
@Shdill:
Agreed, but while I think the protagonist is somewhat unhealthily rigid, and was somewhat unjustified in what he did to his
other two team-mates, the prospective love interest here is the only one of them who really has no right to get
mad about it. Had to ditch class for an "awards ceremony"? Choose to do something like that, without working it out with the school, and you are indeed going to have to accept that you're reliant on the mercy and good graces of your classmates, as an obvious consequence. o.o;
(I actually don't care much about him not being a good student, in the soul-crushing bullshit class that it so clearly was. I just feel he has no right to blame anyone for his gambit not ending well, either. Asking for help? Sure. Blaming, no.)
Well, I don't actually feel
that strongly about any of this anyway, just, basically, my feelings are "the protagonist having mild social problems will not excuse this guy's behaviour". (Which doesn't preclude that they might be good foils for each other on these matters in the future, or some such. They're obviously supposed to be diametrically opposed on this sort of matter.)