[ He swallows again, taking the tightened embrace as encouragement and that leads to courage which in turn leads to truths he hadn't really realized himself. It's only been three weeks since Helix disappeared but so much has gone through his head in that amount of time and whether he comes back or not...
Some things have to change. ]
...I think I wanna let him go. And... I wanna be with you. Not like a couple or nothin', not yet in any case but... like this? Can we be like this?