When they both had been in school or on the run, her obsessive tendencies had always benefited him. So he had never really pushed her to do otherwise. But the moment it was no longer beneficial to him, he began to push her to spend less time at school and more time with him at the store. In the beginning, he had constantly accused her of not caring about him any time she had been unwilling to drop everything the moment he decided that he actually wanted to spend some time with her. It was a volatile push and pull between what she could only describe as the actions of two very different men.