Love, I told Dree, and I'll tell you the same: you need to stop putting me in between the two of you. I don't care what the two of you are really fighting over, but I don't appreciate being used as an excuse, and I don't need you defending me to her when it's not really that you're defending me, it's that you're angry with her and are looking for any reason to get up her nose and I just happen to be convenient.

And for the record? I really don't appreciate you trying to talk me into breaking the rules just because you're upset. A birthday cuddle isn't enough of a reason to screw up years of negotiation, and I really hope you've realised that already, or will soon enough once you calm down. That part's most important to Dree, but everything we agreed to was important to someone, and what's important to me is that we don't break our agreement just because something didn't go the way one of us had planned. I can put up with sleeping alone, even when I'd been looking forward to snuggling up with you both, way more than I could put up with knowing I was doing something Dree would be hurt by.

I know you'll both need some time to cool off, so please take it, yeah? I'll be here whenever you fix up whatever's wrong. And if the thing that's wrong is "this isn't working anymore", just tell me. I told her, I'll tell you: I'd rather keep you both as friends than have this whole thing turn into disaster.