He folded his arms beneath the water, not aggressively, just contemplative.
"You can't. You can't hold onto what you have. Time always flows. Things changes, and so do people, so will you. Just by telling you this, I'm changing you, and I'm changing our relationship, one way or the other. In two minutes, we'll be different from how things were two minutes ago. A friendship can end in a heartbeat, out of nowhere, and another can form in that short a time too."
He lifted a hand out of the pool, water spilling out of his palm. "People die. Stuff changes. Hold onto what was and you'll only hurt yourself. That doesn't mean you can't try to change it back, though, not the small stuff. But it also means you need to accept change, too. Even horrible change."
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"You can't. You can't hold onto what you have. Time always flows. Things changes, and so do people, so will you. Just by telling you this, I'm changing you, and I'm changing our relationship, one way or the other. In two minutes, we'll be different from how things were two minutes ago. A friendship can end in a heartbeat, out of nowhere, and another can form in that short a time too."
He lifted a hand out of the pool, water spilling out of his palm. "People die. Stuff changes. Hold onto what was and you'll only hurt yourself. That doesn't mean you can't try to change it back, though, not the small stuff. But it also means you need to accept change, too. Even horrible change."