[ IC ] Truth time

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What is it?

Comments

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[ oh fuck. fuck fuck fuck ]

I didn't mean that!

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...

[wait a minute, processing that]

You didn't— then why did you say that? I don't believe you.

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Okay, good! Let's go back to not believing me. I'm used to that. Everything's okay here!

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...that's not what I meant. I don't believe that you didn't mean that. Even if you didn't mean to say it.

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It doesn't matter.

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I think it does. If it didn't matter, you wouldn't make that face.

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Look, it really doesn't. Let's just forget about it.

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It would have been enough if you had said you didn't want to talk about it in the first place instead of dismissing it as important. It's obviously stressing you out, and I don't want you to have to do that.

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. . . That's it?

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... not really, no.

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It's fine. You don't have to say anything.

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I'm going to. But before that, what did you expect me to say, Tony?

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Uh, "No thanks I'll pass, I'm an American sovereign?"

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[looks slightly to the side, but shakes his head]

...I... no. I wouldn't. ...Say that, I mean.

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Something along those lines. Give it time, my imagination is pretty creative.

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... please tell me what you didn't want to say before?

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Steve . . .

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Tony.

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Fine, I love you okay!

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[he... inhales on a few words before he gets them out]

That's... I was hoping you'd say tha— [um well] I mean...

[covers his mouth with a hand and looks to the side, a little embarrassed]

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Wait what?

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[his shoulders slump a bit]

Seems like whatever's affecting us is making it difficult not to be honest right now. I just... I'm saying that I... I'm happy you told me. And I feel the same.

[still just kind of studying the wall over there. it's such a fascinating wall]

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What??

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... stop that.

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It's a little shocking, okay?