How could you ask someone you cherish to share such an uncertain future?

Can I explain this? I have written this? So there was this scene in Timer, that I’m paraphrasing due to an incomplete memory, where boy tells girl that he loves her, and he knows it, and doesn’t need a timer to know that. Girl can not respond reciprocally. Later scene, girl tries to patch it up, but in the course of which realize it is ruined. She knows she loves him now. He’s glad that she was able to love someone.

I ran into T today, and we talked about how if one more guy told her that he was just a loner, she was going to [whatever]. She started talking about how guys think she’s too much, too into them, but it isn’t that she’s particularly crazy about them, but just that she’s excited. That sunshine makes her excited. So, so much having a crush. I told her that I thought I was the other way, sort of, where I feel strongly about people (or I don’t) and I tell them but I don’t expect them to do anything about it.

The history of my past with M is melting down into that I liked her more than she liked me. And so it goes.