Little Goat Mountain and now it's only you that matters

"I said that you're incredible," and he wondered what she would make of that, what she made of everything. The little hints she would pick up on... the building apology. All those wrongs he skirted around. Glad that they were off his shoulders, hopeful he could make some of them right again.

He laughed at her look of utter confusion, and disbelief. And... well... he guess he couldn't blame her. "Yes, I do. I like you, Arlette, in a way I don't really know what to do about," and Kaito turned his ears in sheepish apology. "I'm so sorry -- I was an idiot. And... I guess I was afraid," he scuffed the ground with his paw, "Your dad -- well, I mean, after he exiled that girl... and you know the way he looks at me when I'm around you - " and he laughed again, at how absurd and terrifying everything still seemed to him. About this, about all of this. "It was so stupid - I was so stupid. I should've just been brave - shouldn't have ignored you - and I can't... well, I can't really change what I did, but I can change things starting now," he glanced at Arlette, cheeks warm, and solidarity in his eyes, "We can change things. I - I mean, if you want to."