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“No! It’s all good, all be it a bit unusual for you, but we’ve known each other for so long, I’d pretty much do anything for you at this point,” she says with a bright smile with her pinky up, “Ya! Remember that promise that we made all those years back? Together forever!”
I then get a deep sickening visceral feeling, so deep and guttural like I’ve gone through centuries of torture. I’m on the verge of crying; breaking into pieces and falling through to the abyss. Biting my lip hard till it bleeds a bit without my knowledge I look straight into her soft blue honest eyes, “I... love you.”

Eyes unfaltering, she replies swiftly, “I love you too of course.”
I wince at how dense she is, “No... No, Yuzi... That’s not what I mean.”
Tilting her head in confusion, “What else could it mean? I love you means I love you, doesn’t it?”
I finally taste the blood from my bleeding lip, “You’ve always been dense, haven’t you?”
“Hm?”
(Progressively gets louder). “I love you as in I want to go out with you, I want to get married to you, I want to spend all my lovely memories with you, I WANT to grow old and DIE with you! I. Love. You.”

Tears start dripping down my face, I already know the answer, I know... I know.
“Um.... Ahh... Well, I don’t... I don’t quite feel the same... But could we... Uh, stay friends...?”
“I’m sorry Yuzi, but we can’t... If we could just stay friends, I would not have told you this...” I take a deep breath before continuing on, “I can’t resist the urge to kiss you, hug you, just things a normal friend could never do.”
“Oh...” she says looking as if she is on the verge of tears,” okay then.”
"Yep...”
“Lin, I guess this is goodbye, isn't it?”