Ethan
"Then I'm just supposed to wait here until you find your shot or try things out with me in secret until you decide it won't work out but at least you have Malia as a backup plan," I found myself laughing but no humour was in it. Just the audible heartbreak. "I find it funny when I was stuck in the same situation a few months back but with some girl Uncle Ed forced me to date, you said I was doing the same thing. Look how the tables have turned."
"Ethan," Demyan barked, "I can't just roll over and let you take me the way you always used to. You can't just want me when it's convenient and expect me to leave everything I've built for myself in an instant. I need to figure out what's changed between us and are we still the same people who broke each other apart rather than fixed."