I know, I just... I wish the people I liked the most ever felt the same way about me. And I don't know why nothing I do is ever enough for that.
[ He's still pretty sure he could live with the pretending, though he doesn't say so. It's different when he has to lie about himself, when he knows for a fact that things aren't real, but when it's coming from someone else, he can almost always convince himself if he tries hard enough. He'd nearly taken a bullet to try to cling onto Hikage's lies, but Giovanni hadn't been there to see that. ]
...You're in a separate category, obviously.
[ This friendship was never anything like the others, and it probably says something that it's pretty much the only one that didn't start with him idolizing the other person and desperately vying for their attention.
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[ He's still pretty sure he could live with the pretending, though he doesn't say so. It's different when he has to lie about himself, when he knows for a fact that things aren't real, but when it's coming from someone else, he can almost always convince himself if he tries hard enough. He'd nearly taken a bullet to try to cling onto Hikage's lies, but Giovanni hadn't been there to see that. ]
...You're in a separate category, obviously.
[ This friendship was never anything like the others, and it probably says something that it's pretty much the only one that didn't start with him idolizing the other person and desperately vying for their attention.
At that offer, he nods. ]