"I'm just a realist."

It was an easy-going smile, although it didn't quite manage to reach his eyes the way it had before his memory came back. He could fake it well enough, but he was far from carefree and that sunk in even more when he realized how much better he had felt without knowing himself.

"I had to practice first, apparently."

He laughed, shaking his head and looking up at the mistletoe again.

"There's one way to cement a friendship."