[Adam doesn't even know the half of it, but...Omori carries it all.]
Sunny is weak. [There's no bitterness in his voice, this time; it's an odd, tender tone, like Omori is giving a eulogy.] He can't handle it. So, I do.
[He looks to Adam.] If it was your job to protect someone - for ["Four?] years - and someone else showed up, then tried to get rid of you, wouldn't you be angry, too?
[You don't get to say it's true just because you want it to be. He should get to decide.
[Sunny doesn't really like those words when they're put together. Neither did Omori, until now, but why should all of Sunny's thorns be his own? Adam's the only friend that's ever just been his, anyway.]
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But he survived without her. I wonder why. [His voice is childlike, mocking.]
Aubrey doesn't want to be alone, so she won't let him out of her sight.
Neither. Will. I.
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This is some really complicated drama, man. Surprised you can keep up.
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Sunny is weak. [There's no bitterness in his voice, this time; it's an odd, tender tone, like Omori is giving a eulogy.] He can't handle it. So, I do.
[He looks to Adam.] If it was your job to protect someone - for ["Four?] years - and someone else showed up, then tried to get rid of you, wouldn't you be angry, too?
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[Just ask his ex girlfriend!]
You’ve got every right to be pissed.
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Sunny is too.
[But there's no rest in a place like this. Omori doesn't know what to do.]
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[That sentence is basically an admission of not knowing how to make it better. Even being the older - and, allegedly, wiser - one, he’s got nothing.]
You ever need anything, though, I’ve got you.
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I know.
[He really believes it, too.
[There's a bit of a pause, and then:]
Adam.
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[You don't get to say it's true just because you want it to be. He should get to decide.
[Sunny doesn't really like those words when they're put together. Neither did Omori, until now, but why should all of Sunny's thorns be his own? Adam's the only friend that's ever just been his, anyway.]
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Somehow he wasn’t expecting this.
This kid’s really attached to him, hasn’t he?
…well, he can’t say he hasn’t grown on him too.]
Sure. [He smiles, it’s genuine.] We’ll be best friends. I’ll let Scott Tibbs know he’s been dethroned, if I ever see him.
[He ought to find someone his own age, and Adam hopes he will - but until then, he’ll be this for him.]
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[Omori holds out his pinky. Adam knows what a pinky promise is, right?]
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He hooks his pinky around Omori’s.]
What’s the promise?
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Yeah, me neither, kid.