The taller boy nods slowly. "Yeah. I asked, you know, that one time, but you weren't into it, so ... "

He shrugs. He wants to say if he'd have known sooner, he would have gone after Tavros harder, that he wouldn't have wasted time with other stuff. But the truth is, no longer under the influence of the love potion, he doesn't think time with Shinra was wasted. The other boy is still dear to him, even if they're not going to be together, or maybe even never see each other again, and he doesn't regret the time they had together.

"Guess our little hissbro did do something good," he adds, smiling a little. "If it got you to be all speaking up on your real feelings."