[ There is an irrepressible start of something like a smile at the corner of his mouth, the kind of hidden subtlety only Tsenka might notice. Or only his roommates.

He looks down at his drink, and he nods. Yes. ]

It's been almost a year of the three of us, [ after a pause. ] When I started, I don't know that I thought it would last that way. But I don't know how things would be for me, here, without them both.