The following long-suffering sigh was meant to be his attempt to keep himself from saying something stupid. Jess tried so hard to watch what he said to her, to keep his tongue in check, which often led to long silences as he couldn't come up with anything productive to say. This was one of those moments where the silence stretched on for a moment as he tried to think of some reply.

Did he want to? That really was the question.

He did, but the problem was that every time something like this happened, he wanted to less and less. Jess really wasn't sure they were going to make it another three years. "Yes." He said finally, unable to come up with anything else to add. He wouldn't last much longer though.