[ Jingyi is such a gossip auntie. It's like he's sinking his teeth into this and not letting go.. And Inigo feels like he'll have no good way to just weasel himself out of this conversation without it inevitably turning really, really awkward later on.

So he has to be honest. Which is hard, because he's never said any of this out loud, no matter how often he's turned the thoughts over and over inside of his own head.

It makes him sigh again as he finally raises his face from his hands, looking kind of miserable, despite not even being in a similar exhausted state to Jingyi. ]

Because there's already a girl who's really important to him. And even though they can probably never be together again [ - honestly, using the word 'probably' there is generous when it could be left out, but Inigo likes to have some hope for his crush's happiness - ] there's just no way I could ever take her place.