*teasingly* Sure. By tomorrow or the day after, one might even be able to call me "hard-working" and mean it.
*his smile fading a little as he looks at you, recalling some of the specifics* I'm sure she'll come around to...us, if that's what you're worried about. *stumbles a bit simply because this sort of difficulty hits a little too close to home* It- Some things aren't always easy to accept right away.