If you think that was harsh, you should have let me carry on. [It's said in a slightly more playful tone, though it's also terribly serious; had they not come to this small truce, her words would probably have hurt them both beyond comparison.

His latter comment, however, prompts a weird mash of a smile and a smirk from her, along with a couple of tears trickling down her cheeks. Damn, he really was ridiculous and stupid sometimes. And she already missed him terribly.]

And you should know I can't be bought with cheap praise, either.