"When you put it that way I have no choice but to guess it has something to do with girl issues. What'd he do? Steal her heart?  It still is a chance that I need to take and every moment I stand here the more she slips away from me. I will not lose her again. Not to them and especially not the way they are trying to take her. I go, and I have a shot. I stay and that shot disappears, and with it everything I ever was and am. That would hurt him a lot more than any physical loss could. Do you understand that?"