[...]

I honestly...didn't know a whole lot about friendship, before. I didn't have any friends.

[He looks sidelong at her.]

I had Cass, Rapunzel, and Eugene, but...I didn't know anybody my age. But...if I've learned anything being here, it's that sometimes you meet people who are just...meant to be in your life.

[He puts his hands together, idly twiddling his thumbs.]

Even if you seem like complete opposites, you just click somehow. And Ai...she sounds like a really important friend just like that.