"That's good," he replies, and immediately, he feels the all-too-familiar shock of knowing that the words that came out of his mouth should have stayed in it.

"--I mean, uh," his cheeks turn slightly red, "I don't want you to be lonely or miserable or anything, I just, um..."

Yousuke puts a hand on the back of his hot neck. He wishes being a screw up wasn't so tightly tied to his personality.

"I guess being selfish is sort of natural when you're in a relationship with someone."