It's a reality I can be objectively conscious of. [He doesn't move to hug Dave, though he'd like to.]

I've committed to the probability that we'll re-settle end be whispering our late night inanities through the bunk beds in short order.

[Maybe it will be awkward and weird, sometimes. Yes, there are things unfixed. But Dirk has decided he wants and need this, and Dirk is very stubborn.]