[ on an incredibly unromantic note, he replies with ]

If we're gonna pull this off, we gotta at least know some stuff about each other.

[ "maybe we could be friends." he almost says it. but it feels like too much of an olive branch extended towards someone who definitely ?probably? doesn't want to be his friend. ]

What we want to do something actually factor much into any of this. I — if we have to do this, I wanna make it work. I want to get to know you.