`` i only ask that you agree to one night with me . '' we had been best friends since we were little . `` your body knows what i can give it , so stop fighting me every step of the way . '' it 's easier that way to pretend they 're not real . `` oh , '' i said , feeling as though someone had punched me in the stomach . it could just be a brief separation while he did something amazing that most people would never get the chance to do . 