Scorpius is sorry too.

"I want to be friends," he says, trying not to sound -

Well, quite frankly, like he wants to cry. Because this is, after all, embarrassing enough already.

"But I don't know if I can."

Not when he likes Albus this much and Albus, unknowingly or not, has just sort of broken his heart.

Because it does hurt. It really, really hurts.

"Things were a bit easier when we were ignoring each other, weren't they? We were - We were good at that."