Life's to short to not tell some one you love them.
The words kept running trough his mind, like a broken record. So here he was telling Jeanne that he loved her. But it was al wrong. She was not the person he wanted to tell that he loved, she didn't have that geekish apperance, that wonderfull smile and that amazing computerskills. She wasn't the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.
But he said it anyway, because he knew, it was the closest thing to love as he was ever going to get. So he was prepared to settle for less, not wanting to think about the fall-out that would happen when even she would realize that his words to her had been a lie.
So he said those words and held on to her, trying to hold on to the dream he built on a bubble.