How long had it been going on? Shit, that wasn't an easy question to answer, when you really got down to it. They'd known each other a while, but... Well, he could definitely tell Dirk when the feelings started, at least. It was a month or two after that though, that things got more... intense. And everything in between was a huge clusterfuck. But he'd promised not to lie to Dirk, and and withholding information felt a bit too much like lying for him to really feel comfortable doing it. He supposed... he could give Dirk the choice.

"I guess that depends," he finally says after a few moments of silence, mulling it all over. "You want the long story, or the short one? Because it's... uh, kinda straight out of some dramatic love story or some shit, if I'm perfectly honest."