Bestie

Last night at an izakaya, I overheard a conversation at the next table, and it was absolutely wild. One girl, after having a bit too much to drink, was pouring her heart out to her best friend. She'd been entangled with this guy for almost two years. He never gave her a proper title, and he'd often disappear. Then, the girl, moved, showed her phone and said: "Look! He asked me about something today! He never cared about my life or death before! I think he's finally serious about settling down, right?" Her best friend replied with certainty: "You kick a stray dog for two years, and then occasionally toss it a bone, and it thinks it has a home now, huh?!" Damn, I was sitting there eating fried chicken and drinking beer and almost choked.