Kyle looked at Joseph.
"What?" Joseph said. "It's relevant."
"It's not relevant," Kyle said.
"It explains the homebody thing," Joseph said. "He'd rather be wherever she is."
"That's—" Kyle paused, seemingly deciding that debating the point would only escalate the situation instead of letting it go.
"I'm just private about it," he said to Mike specifically. "That's all."
"Fair," Mike said, and dropped it in the clean way that made Kyle's shoulders relax slightly.
"So about his girlfriend?" Mike said to Joseph, turning it around.
"Situationally complicated," Joseph said, which was clearly a well-worn phrase for something he had said many times. "I meet many people. It's difficult to be specific."
"Captain of the football team in his first month," Kyle said to Mike, with the tone of someone quoting back a piece of information for context. "It's been a busy social calendar."
"I can imagine," Mike said.
"It's a professional hazard," Joseph said, entirely without guilt.
