[Haruhi sighs here. She's thinking in the back of her head "I'm really having this emotional talk with Buffy?" But she dismisses that by giving herself something to focus on. That is,s stepping across the room to get some tea going at the kettle station over here. As she does this, more automatic action than anything]

Back in middle school, I must've dumped easily thirty or more losers, you know. I wonder if those idiots got messed up about it? I doubt it.