1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,880 Ahoi down there. Up here. 2 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,880 Wow, you slept like a log. 3 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:39,880 No, I'm not gonna wake you up. Not with how hard you've been working. I mean, you've been powering through. Honestly, like a workhorse, I've never seen you work this hard before. You needed a rest. 4 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:45,880 So I graciously decided to keep the birds from shitting on you while you slept. 5 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:53,880 Yeah, I would just smack them any time they tried to land in the tree. Why do you think I'm up here? 6 00:00:53,880 --> 00:01:01,880 Other than the fact that I now have a great view of the oncoming sunset, which I am... 7 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,880 I'm glad you're awake for. 8 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:12,880 I was kinda contemplating waking you up for it. I feel like this one's gonna be really something. 9 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:30,880 I just know. There's something about the sunsets that you and I always manage to catch. They're just... 10 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:36,880 I can't even decide which one's my favorite. They all stick out in my mind really clearly. 11 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:46,880 Yippee! You're awake! 12 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:53,880 No, sorry. Did I sound weird? 13 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:08,880 No, I'm just... you know, it's later in the day and I've just been catching up on thinking. 14 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:18,880 Taking the opportunity while you're unconscious. 15 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:27,880 Hey, you know what I... actually... well, I guess I didn't just realize it. 16 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:34,880 But I was just thinking about it. 17 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:41,880 This park is kinda... it's kinda where our friendship cemented. 18 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:49,880 Well, for me. I don't know about you. I mean, we'd been hanging out before that. 19 00:02:49,880 --> 00:03:11,880 And for a little bit. I guess I just... it's kind of rare for me to hang out one-on-one with guys. 20 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:28,880 I mean, I've always had male friends, but I guess I... due to historical events, I don't really hang out with them. 21 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:38,880 Just the two of us very often because in the past, that's led to some awkward confrontations. 22 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:49,880 And I just... it just feels like there's always a tension there. 23 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:57,880 And I... it's just a bummer when you're hanging out with someone and you start to feel comfortable with them. 24 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:03,880 And then they come at you swinging, you know? And they're like, God, I wanna... I want more. 25 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:08,880 The friendship isn't enough. And it just... you know? 26 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:14,880 And then that leads me to think that, oh, well, now every guy is gonna want something else. 27 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:23,880 And it makes me feel super fucking arrogant and also more cautious than I need to be and probably still not cautious enough. 28 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:38,880 And I... so I just... I normally am on guard, you know, when I'm hanging out with a dude, with a fella. 29 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:48,880 And it kind of eliminates the potential for a close relationship, which sucks. 30 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:59,880 But I... I remember we were hanging out and we were at the park. 31 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:05,880 We were here and we were just sitting on one of the benches near the pond. 32 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:14,880 And we heard the ice cream truck and you were like, OK, I'm gonna go get us some ice cream. 33 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:30,880 You stay here. You stay here. You have to wait and keep your eyes peeled because I need to show you the man, the myth, the legend, Obese Pete. 34 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:38,880 And I was... I mean, my eyes lit up. I was so excited. I didn't even know what the fuck you were talking about. 35 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:46,880 And so you went off, you know, I sat there. I waited. You didn't even give me a clue. 36 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,880 I just knew a name. And I mean, honestly, it was enough. 37 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,880 I never expected the majesty of what I was about to discover. 38 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:14,880 So I was just waiting in anticipation, looking around desperate so that I couldn't possibly miss this amazing spectacle that was supposedly about to warp into existence in front of my fucking face. 39 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:31,880 And I'm waiting and waiting, thinking of Pete. And you finally came back from around the corner, double fisting two ice creams, one of which was a power puff pop that looked like it had just lost a hard, hard fight. 40 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:44,880 Running because you didn't want to miss the action. And I turned to you to be like, hey, man, what's the deal? Like, where is this creature you promised me? He's a no show. 41 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:52,880 And I just... I guess I noticed for the first time that it was just you. 42 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,880 Just you. 43 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:09,880 Just you and me and our ice creams. And there was no one else there. We weren't hanging out with like a group of friends. 44 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:17,880 Pete wasn't even in the picture. It was just the two of us. And it, it, it caught me off guard. 45 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,880 And it was, it was a really good feeling. 46 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:33,880 It was so natural. I don't know how it happens. I mean, it must have been like the 11th time we had hung out, just the two of us, and I didn't even notice. 47 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:41,880 That's insane. For me, that's insane. 48 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:49,880 And then Pete came out, and he was just the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. 49 00:07:49,880 --> 00:08:00,880 Just this perfect sphere of a mallard. Oh my God. 50 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:07,880 So now ice cream and ducks are synonymous with our friendship in my mind. It's etched there permanently. 51 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,880 And I'm very grateful for that. 52 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:20,880 And now it's been what? God, that was like two years ago. 53 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:25,880 But yeah, you, you've been a really good friend. 54 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,880 And it hasn't been weird. 55 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:40,880 Yeah. 56 00:08:40,880 --> 00:09:07,880 And then I had, I just, I got caught up in how comfortable I felt. 57 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:21,880 And I, I wanted to enhance that even further. And I, I, we just, we kept getting closer. 58 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:41,880 And I thought, I want this guy to be happy. I want him to just, I care about him. He's just such a good, he's such a good friend. 59 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:52,880 And I loved that, I loved that that's all that there is. 60 00:09:52,880 --> 00:10:01,880 And then you got, you got a girlfriend. 61 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:11,880 And I, easily in the beginning, I knew, like I knew I was jealous right away. 62 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:25,880 And then, and I, it didn't concern me because I was like, I, you know, I, he's, it's just that we were close and spent a lot of time together. 63 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:34,880 And now he has someone else that's just, he's choosing to spend that time with a lot. And that, like, that's normal, right? 64 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:44,880 Like you just get that. It doesn't matter how you see the other person, if you're close, you know, it's, I got that way when my dad started dating my stepmom, you know? 65 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:58,880 Like I, I got jealous and it, it, it didn't concern me. I, I just thought, you know, good for him. I'm so, I'm so happy for him. 66 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:14,880 You know, he's, I don't see him as much. It sucks. And I, I spent a lot of time at the park alone after that. 67 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:26,880 Not to make you feel guilty or bum you out. I just, it's just what happened, you know? 68 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:36,880 I would watch you two together and I would think, oh, yeah, you're really close. 69 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:43,880 I've never gotten to do that with him. I've never... 70 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:58,880 Are we close enough as, does he like me enough as just a person to be okay doing that stuff with me? Like just, you know, cuddling or... 71 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:09,880 I mean, I know he's taken, but we could, we could do some of that stuff platonically. I wonder if he wants to. 72 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:21,880 And then I would, I would catch myself and, and I would go, well, no, that's, that's something that he does with her for a reason. 73 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:31,880 I mean, that's, she's, she's the girlfriend and I don't want to broach on that. That's, it's a separate relationship and I shouldn't compare mine to it. 74 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:41,880 It's not the same and I don't want it to be the same. I don't want all the responsibilities that would come with being his girlfriend. 75 00:12:41,880 --> 00:13:05,880 I don't want, I don't want to perform all the requirements of that title and then it just hit me. Yes, I do. 76 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:22,880 This is even when we broke up. I didn't want to make you uncomfortable. And now I'm, God, this is so pathetic. I'm sorry. 77 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:46,880 I never meant to be the one who would. No, stay down there. Please don't. 78 00:13:46,880 --> 00:14:07,880 I'm so sorry. 79 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:24,880 Really? 80 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:29,880 Oh my God. 81 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:42,880 Yeah, I feel like slightly less of an asshole. 82 00:14:42,880 --> 00:15:01,880 Fuck, I thought we were done though. 83 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:22,880 The boy, he's here. 84 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:31,880 Obese Pete, you're a prophet pal. Oh, little buddy. 85 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:57,880 Oh, I want to ruffle your feathers. 86 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:06,880 Do you want to go chase down the ice cream truck? 87 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:31,880 I want to see how deformed SpongeBob can get.