I can't give up on my friendship with Tony. You're right. I can't predict what will happen, not by a long shot but I can make sure Tony understands I'm not about to let this ruin things too, at least not on my end.

[ he thinks about it and adds ]

It's obvious it's what I should have done to begin with.

[ a weird thing, to talk about the future in past tense but he has no time to think about the paradox here. ]