I hate to break it to you, but these two are not as...pure as you are hoping them to be. I've known them for quite a long time, so I know how they really are.

[small sigh. but he does relent a little.]

However, I will admit that despite the headaches they tend to give me, they are my good friends. So you have nothing to worry about.

[pause.]

You could say this is our way of expressing our friendship.