"Look," he says, trying again. "Even if there was nothing else between us, even if we'd never seen each other outside of the bar, and those meetings - rare enough, yeah - inside were all we had, I would still expect I'd hear if you were getting married, because we'd be friends." He takes a breath, twitches through something that might be a shrug.
"And with things as they are, uh. You obviously aren't just a friend in the bar to me, that's why."
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"Look," he says, trying again. "Even if there was nothing else between us, even if we'd never seen each other outside of the bar, and those meetings - rare enough, yeah - inside were all we had, I would still expect I'd hear if you were getting married, because we'd be friends." He takes a breath, twitches through something that might be a shrug.
"And with things as they are, uh. You obviously aren't just a friend in the bar to me, that's why."