"If you choose to lock your heart away you'll lose it for certain."
"It's always belonged to you."
She had let him down.
He had let her down.
Yet she was still the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. To him she was perfect.
He loved her, completely and intensely.
She had kissed him. She had kissed that man, that rat. But she did it for them, for him and even though he didn't totally believe her, he forgave her. Her laugh and her smile meant he would forgive her forever.
There was no point reasoning it.