Yeah Lea knew how she'd planned to end that sentence. "You're one of my best friends," he said. "That's what you are. And always will be. Got it memorized?"

Then, after a brief pause, he added. "I think sometimes you get so worried about all the other things you may or may not be that you forget that part. Or at least, you forget that it's always gonna matter more to me than any of the other other things."