"A flippant non-answer is still a non-answer, Ailee."

Coleman ignores the hand and the boop. It's not important right now.

"And the proper comparison is [i]child.[/i] A child who I must help, a child that needs educating, and raising. A child that will grow into something more than I am, and for whom I care deeply.

"Realistically speaking, there's not a lot I can do to you. When you're in yer ooga-booga eyes mode, you're scary. But I looked at the way you treated your friend, how you didn't force her to do what you wanted, and said, here is a person I can trust. I can rely on her to, if not do the right thing, at least be consistent enough and respectful enough to leave well enough alone.

"So in the spirit of that, I'm askin' you once more. Can I trust you alone with my child?"