"Oh shut the front door. I can't believe... I... how many times will I have to hit you? It's a very good thing you're my partner." She shook her head. "Oliver, really, your best friend tells you that he wants to be with you. You tell him that you're interested, except not, but perhaps, and you wonder why he's putting distance, and before you say anything stupid, remember that I can and will hit you."
Savannah sighed. "When Marty and I split up, and this was way back when, at the beginning, we'd known each other a grand total of a month, give or take, we went out of our way to avoid each other, to have anything to do with each other, because it hurt, deep inside me to be near him and not be with him, and as I said, we'd known each other for a month. I can't even imagine how Tommy is feeling right now. It took time before we could start making our way back. Now, time is also relative, because I am stubborn and I knew that we were meant to be together. Tommy isn't me, which means you don't get to be Marty. You're actually going to have to do something to straighten out this."
she might want to hit him, but instead she squeezed his hand. "You're going to have to figure this out for yourself before you can really fix things with him. You can't say it's not off the table but I don't know. You need to figure out if it's happening or not. There is no in-between when you're such good friends and you live on top of each other. This is the beauty and curse of this place. We don't get the luxury of doing things slowly, of doing it normally. There's no room for that, because if he does want the relationship and you don't, every time someone mentions that you're a couple, every time he has to pretend that you are, every time that you touch a certain way or that someone remarks about your relationship, it's going to hurt. It's not that you're going to do it wrong; it's that it will hurt no matter what you do. And that's the curse, but the beauty of it, it's that we don't have to go by convention, we don't have to hide behind what's supposed to be, you don't have to overthink and rationalize. You know him, you've known him all of your life. You don't need time to decide if he's the right person, because you already know everything there is to know about him. Do you want to spend the rest of your life with him, yes or no? It's really that simple. The logistics might require some time, getting through the dates, the engagement, the wedding, that might take time, but whether he is the one, that's something you know inside you."