`` can you ... check the other apartments first and then come back ? '' to tell me that everything was going to be alright . well ... nicer than the other things . `` but i let you feed from both afterward . '' `` then he 's a fool and not the man i think he is . he understood and agreed to an extent , but what he wasnt too happy about was taking a step backwards and returning to a closet by keeping the relationship secret if things got that far . 