... Perhaps I simply assume the worst of myself. I'm perfectly aware that I'm one of the most difficult people to get along with.

[He sighs a little and looks down, hiding his eyes. Yes, that's true... The girls would undoubtedly try and get everyone to get along and live side by side. It wasn't something Joshua was good at. In fact, he really wasn't sure he could do it.

But with everything that's happened, there were two fatal mistakes he could make here. The first would be choosing to live alone. After everything that's happened, if he chose to seclude himself again, he knew his mental stability would shatter. He was aware that even Riku knew that. After Suki was terminated.... Riku... he was one of those few who showed up at Joshua's apartment uninvited to try and keep him from going under. An action Joshua still didn't understand.

The second fatal mistake, if he chose to turn Riku away. Not that he didn't think Riku could handle it, but Riku had been friends with Kairi and Naminé for so much longer. They'd been cloned with memories of each other, a lifetime of memories. If he turned Riku away, chances were that Kairi and Naminé would discover the reason why and become upset with him. After all the hell he'd put them through, after the loss of many of their friends recently, denying them the comfort of living with one of their closest friends would... probably result in unpretty consequences. Perhaps they would never speak to him again, perhaps they'd simply kick him out...

The only remaining solution was obvious.]

I'm going to have to be. It isn't... the most desired of situations. But I truly have no choice. [Joshua shakes his head a little.] What about you? Would you honestly be okay with this solution?