[ Slowly the pieces start to come together, and while they're not coalescing into an image that Zack likes much, this isn't about him. This is Kaede's past, and there's no changing it, but knowing it and learning it and making sure that she knows it wasn't right? That's important. ]

Don't care how miserable they were. It doesn't make it right to take it out on someone else.

[ He wants to make that clear first and foremost. At this point, their dance may as well be as much background noise as the music, and as soon as the song ends, Zack halts, taking a moment to reach up to grip Kaede's shoulders. ]

I'm sorry that you had to go through that. It wasn't fair.

[ At this point she's probably gripped him hard enough to leave a few marks, but he doesn't call attention to that either. ]

... Wanna find somewhere to sit?