Wait, that's not true. He knows exactly what he wants to say.]
I miss my friend.
[It's a feeling he's gotten to know well over the years. But before it was more like the ache of a phantom limb. You know something's gone, but you feel the pain of it anyway. Steve just had to live with it. Until he found out that he didn't. That essential part of him wasn't as gone as he thought.]
We could handle it together. Might be easier that way.
[There's an earnest to it, a vulnerability that Steve only feels when he's asking someone out for a cup of coffee.]
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Wait, that's not true. He knows exactly what he wants to say.]
I miss my friend.
[It's a feeling he's gotten to know well over the years. But before it was more like the ache of a phantom limb. You know something's gone, but you feel the pain of it anyway. Steve just had to live with it. Until he found out that he didn't. That essential part of him wasn't as gone as he thought.]
We could handle it together. Might be easier that way.
[There's an earnest to it, a vulnerability that Steve only feels when he's asking someone out for a cup of coffee.]