We are predictable and we can’t be trusted around each other. You say you feel for me nothing more than friendship, but can that really be true? I can feel the underlying tones. Hear the subliminal messages. I know the difference in the way you breathe. The rising actions. The ways you ‘discretely’ pull away; all the other falling actions. You know just how to touch me. The scorn in my voice as I exit a room. And better than myself, how much you are cared for.