So he was hurt, he could feel the sting in his heart, because the girl he was with had put it there from the start, because before him she had been with other men, but the men she was with he called his friends.
Now I guess it's hard when your boys run through a girl, and for this girl your feelings unfurl, and they came out for him and that was the problem. So he kept her at a distance hoping he could solve them.