I remembered my conversation with Janine and the others.

Mark: It's bad to hope for something vain.

Everybody (besides me): Yeah...

Janine: What if the time comes that she decides to love someone else
other than you? Won't you think that you wasted all these years waiting for nothing.

Me: Well if that time comes, I won't care. I won't care if she decides not to love me back. I love her. That's all that matters. And if the day comes that she changes her mind and decides to love me back, she'll find me... then, now, and forever patiently waiting for 22.

-Fire (Always waiting)