Life skill. Right. Maybe he just doesn't grasp the concept entirely. Does that happen when you start coming to terms with your immortality? Or maybe it's his social ineptitude showing again. Who knows.

"That's seriously what you want?" He's skeptical. A little judgmental too. Not because he doesn't understand the desire to be normal -- he does. Definitely. But his powers are awful. Dangerous. Nothing but harmful. Billy is different, right? "What happened to the whole, I dunno, teen hero thing?"