“Friendship. Give him your friendship. Even if you can’t ever give him what you both really want ever again, if you're too afraid to get hurt again, we’ll all understand. But you both need each other, even if it’s just as friends. You’re in the same room together, and for the first time in seven years, he’s whole again, Stella. His light is gone when you aren’t around. And I haven’t seen you over the past few years, but I think the same goes for you, too.
