You might like it. If you try it.

[He's half-mumbling, every word hushed, and he's cradling the communicator like it's something fragile, feeling all the while like he's getting this wildly wrong but left with nothing to do but forge on anyway.]

I'll help you. I bet I can think of a lot of things you've never seen.

...I never answered you earlier. And you were wrong about that too. About how I'm "the closest thing to" a friend.

You should've just said that we're friends. Then you would have been right.