For a second he looked like a fish. Just a second, though, and then,

"Des-zi. You can't seriously have..." she just nodded as he spoke, "but we're meant to be! We've been together..."

"We were 'together'," air quotes exist! "for nine minutes, in kindergarten, before you pulled my ponytail so hard I've kept it short for all these years and I bit you. Since then you've been threatening to sue me! When you're not claiming to love me!" then, to all the interested people from the other world, "I swear I've never dated him. It would be gross! The only person I've ever been interested in is Kiba."