Yeah, sometimes people are like that. Maybe it's even more likely in teens. Because love seems so impossible. But that other part...

"Dude, seriously? You don't see it? All his anger and lashing out at you after you find your real love and get serious with her and stop talking to him? My money is that Tommy Hagan was head over heels for you, and seeing you change, seeing you love someone else and cut him out because you could change and so he'd become something you wouldn't want? It'd sure explain shit."