"...yeah. I'm sorry, too, for making little of your feelings, I didn't mean it that way." But he's gonna go brush his teeth and stuff.

—Jeremy holds back an immediate response to that and instead loiters, waiting for Jake to return.

Once he's back, though: "It's like the hugs."

"—like the hugs? What is?"

He starts pacing, with his feet on the ground and everything.  "Some hugs will make me feel better, but the ones that are trying to make me feel better about horrible things I did won't.  So—even if there are... ways of hurting me—that would make me feel better—it won't, if that's what it's trying to do."

Well what Jeremy doesn't know can't hurt him can hurt him effectively.

"Alright, understood."

Nod nodnod.

"There's... something that I don't know whether I should say—"

"Well my experience of you under the truth spell last night was approximately one hundred percent positive so I am in favor of you saying more things."

"What did you mean if not to make little of my feelings?"

"...I don't know, I think I was just kind of. Lashing out? I don't remember exactly what it was you said but something you said felt, I dunno, something."

"Okay."

"I'm not, like, great at this whole, having genuine conversations thing. I'm usually just running everything I say off whatever sounds right, or will get me what I want. —not that I, like, lie," much, "but it's, you know. I'm selfish and manipulative, it's kind of what I do."

"It made me upset with you, so it wasn't very good manipulation if it was that.  I just—I was trying to make sure I didn't misunderstand you.  So maybe you meant that you didn't mean to make little of my feelings, not that there was a different way that you meant it in that moment that I was missing?"

"I don't actually remember what it was that you said or I said anymore so I don't know what I meant, I'm just kind of guessing based on—I mean I remember saying that I didn't mean to make little of your feelings and that, before that, you were being ridiculous about something, but I don't remember what."

"Y—

"Okay.  I see.  ...I have another potentially ill-advised question."

"What is it?"

"Have you ever actually done something bad?"  His voice is quiet.  "Of the kind or scale of murdering someone, or possessing someone while not having reason to believe he or she will be okay afterwards.  Or do you just... have you not done anything like that."

"...I don't know how your scale would go. I've mentioned having my arm broken in a fight once? That was—worse, for me, than you possessing me, and I've done stuff like that to other people before." Jeremy is going to think dumb things in response to this isn't he.

"...Can you be more specific.  You broke someone's arm?"

"Actually I don't think I've ever broken anyone's arm. Teeth once, cracked a guy's cheekbone once, and accidentally triggered a burst appendix once."

".....Okay."

"—he was fine. Afterwards. It was a rich kid school he got taken to the hospital quickly."

"Okay, yeah...  Sorry, I'm just—chewing on this—I just wanted to make sure we weren't in the obviously ridiculous situation where I'm an actual demon who killed his parents, and you had never substantially harmed anyone but were—being like that, anyway."

Jake doesn't even think those were the worst things he's ever done but those things he's a lot more embarrassed by and also they're emotional damage and he isn't sure Jeremy would believe that they're that bad, being from the nineties and all. Then again he did kill his parents over—hmm, Jake supposes he killed his parents over his parents having apparently tried to kill him first so, yeah, he's just not gonna mention any of that. 

"I don't think you're an actual demon."

"—I forgot I hadn't said that before.  I came up with it a long time ago.  I haven't had anyone to discuss this with, and it's not in the book, but it seemed like there should be words for the different types of people who have some sort of relationship with magic, and I came up with, you're a spellcaster, now; you have cast spells.  And a living human who did the same ritual as me, who has their own inherent magic, is a sorcerer.  And then I'm a demon."  He scuffs his foot on the ground, silently.  "It's easier and more evocative than 'my kind of ghost'.  ...I'd be open to suggestions from you, but really I think sorcerers should sound more evil, not me less."