"Y-you...?" He pauses a moment, thinking back. It breaks his heart a little to realize what he's talking about, how he handled that must have seemed so cruel at the time. "I thought... I thought you were, uh... just joking around."

There's no way he'd ever have thought it to be serious, especially back then. H'ed honestly believed that no one in their right mind would like him like that, even going so far as to think there was something wrong with him because why else would people keep pushing him away. A lot of the time he still thinks these things.

Tavros looks down, somehow feeling both happy and crummy at the same time. He sneaks his hand into his robe letting the tiny white snake curl around his hand before he lifts him back out for Gamzee to see. "Yeah.."