‘lucas knew mike like he knew his own mind; you would never find anyone as trusting or as kind. if lucas told annie that he loved her, mike would be silently resigned. annie would be lucas’s. mike would say he was fine, he’d be lying. but as lucas fantasises at night that it’s annies eyes, as he romanticises what might’ve been. at least his dear mike is annie’s ‘best friend.’ at least lucas kept annie’s eyes in his life.’