Alex. None of it happened until I met Alex. Him, and the first - the first real friends I remember ever having. The first people I really let -

[A sound very much like a hastily-stifled sob bursts out from his throat, prompting him to pace back several steps, as if by shying away that might prevent him from saying what comes next.]

You think it was just him and me?

We were just the only two left.