He denied he'd made any sexual advances towards the girl despite her telling him she was attracted to him, that he was kind and good looking.
"I said she must be blind," the defendant said. The following day, she again refused to be taken home, he checked into a motel but the girl heard sirens and demanded they leave, concerned she was being looked for.
He again denied sexual activity between them when questioned by his lawyer, Bill Nabney, about the pair sleeping in the defendant's car. From there he'd taken the girl to his sister's home where she'd drunk "like a fish", again vomiting.
The defendant refuted the girl's claims they were intimate at his sister's home. Asked by his lawyer how her allegations made him feel the defendant said "pretty disturbed".
"I have had to live with this for the last two years, struggle to understand it," he said.
Later he admitted when she wanted a TV, laptop, tablet, blankets and jewellery he'd acquired them from associates.
When a group arrived at the Rotorua house where they were saying the defendant claimed he heard someone saying 'burn the f***ing house down'.
The girl led him to believe it was her ex boyfriend.
"I became agitated because there were four men there, I thought one was her ex-boyfriend and knew she was scared of him, I truly believed that. They said they had come for [the girl], they wanted her back. I said at the end of the day I don't know who the f*** you are."
The man refuted the complainant's evidence that while the confrontation was going on outside the gun was being pointed at her inside.
After the men left he'd gone back inside and found the girl had packed all her possessions into a blanket, telling him several times she wanted to leave.
She got her way and they headed where she had asked to go, he said.
Judge Maree MacKenzie dismissed three of the seven burglary charges the defendant initially faced.
He has maintained not guilty pleas to the remaining burglary charges, one of abduction and two representative charges of sexual connection.
The trial, before a jury of 11 women and one man, is into its second week.