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[Picking up a conversation I didn't finish the night before.]
ME: So...what do you think of, exactly, when you say you think of me?
HE: Must you know?

[Long pause on my end. Then he called. I didn't pick up. Didn't feel like talking.]
ME: Sorry I missed your call
HE: Busy?
ME: Just got home
HE: Date?
ME: Nope... You busy?
HE: Not really. What's up?
ME: Nothing really... You were the one who called...
HE: You SMSed me
ME: You claimed to have thought of me
HE: That was yesterday
ME: So no thoughts of me today huh
HE: I say again. Does it matter?

[Just before I dozed off.]
ME: I think I've finally got the appropriate response to "does it matter?"... "If you say it doesn't, well, then it doesn't."
HE: It's not my call to say whether it does or not. I was asking you the question remember?
ME: In that case, my response remains the same... It shouldn't...but it does...
HE: Anyway, to answer your original question, it's "what if"

[This morning.]
ME: So very tired now...had weird dreams the whole night about "what if"...
HE: What were your dreams and why were they so strange?
ME: To use the catchphrase of the week...does it matter?
HE: Haha. It shouldn't but it does?