He took a deep breath. Unsure of how to go about it, he tried to focus on the ceiling as he talked, certain that looking Lugia in the face would cause him to lose his nerve.

"About last week..." He scratched the side of his nose. Why couldn't there be an easy way to go about these things? "Lugia... I really care about you. What happened then, I wish I could say I had some sort of epiphany where I suddenly knew what to do and how to make things work between us but in reality I just wanted to die. I did not want to fight you, I was not even sure I..."

He swallowed hard. What he said now would effect everything he'd been working towards since he showed up at the academy to teach.
It was tempting to just cover his head with one of the blankets.
In fact, it was such a tempting idea that he wrapped the blankets around himself, his heart pounding as if he had just run a marathon.

"You will always mean everything to me. I love you."