You can't pretend we're only friends then walk away

Jimmy Eat World, Jen

He decides it's going to be easy.

Fine.

It will be great.

And then she rushes into his arms, giddy with excitement and... something...

Her hair.

This is fine.

Nevermind the familiar feeling, the warmth, of holding her close.

Push.

Because there's Dwight who wants him to ‘meet my eye line, Jim.'

And he thinks it really will be easy.

Until she asks him for coffee and it sounds like another question he can't bear to answer, but can hardly keep from asking.

Okay.

It's okay.

Because now he's Number Two and can handle... whatever used to be.

Then he says that thing, that stupid thing, about ‘seeing someone' and wonders if he did it just to see the look on her face. The one he wants to forget.

Friends.

This is going to be...

He hangs his head, studies his shoes.

Shit.