Thanks be to EBT.
"I think the best thing for now, for the both of us, is to be friends."
He laughs a little.
"It's very cliché and non-manly or whatever, but it looks to me like you need a friend. And I wanna be that friend. I wanna be there for you, because I know you're going through a shit time right now. You need someone."
Again, he wipes my tears.
"And I need you," he smiles. "I need you to work this out and get through it, because… Well, just because."
And I have to ask.
"Why? Why me? Why are you still here after everything I've done?"
"Because you're not the person you think you are. I wanna be there when you realize it."