[progress. . . finally]

I know you wouldn't. Your friends are your strength, right? And that strength shatters when you think they've been taken from you.

But they haven't been. You've sill got them right here.

[places a hand over his heart]

And as long as you don't forget, then they'll continue to give you strength. As long as you don't forget. . . nothing can ever take them from you, no matter how hard it tries.

[he's never really been one for friendship speeches, and that sound cheesy even to his own ears. but he believes it]