"Of course I want you around, why else do you bloody think I said sorry in the first place?" Cause it certainly wasn't remorse. He didn't regret what he did, just the consequences of what he did. "You're the only person in this world I have ever cared about and cared for. Even if to you, James Potter is always infinitely more, you are all I have. You are the one I l--"

He stopped himself before he said it, feel a bit heated. He turned away hastily and hid behind his dirty hair. He was so worked up, he was forgetting himself. "Believe I hate you. Whatever makes you happy."