Friends fight sometimes. But then they make up. That's how friendship like that works.

[ She's insistent about that, more than the abstract hypotheticals they used before. ]

He doesn't talk about you like you used to be friends. He talks about you like a best friend still. He misses you. And I bet he's pretty happy to see you again. I mean, under all that tough guy stuff he puts on when he wants to look cool.