"I'm running away!" part 2

The following exchange took place between Harper (5) and myself. I was sitting at the computer. Harper was upset about something and clearly had enough. He was standing at the front door when he made his announcement. This was not the first time he made this declaration, so i again took it with a grain of salt. Well, okay, I may have played along a little.

"I'm running away!"

Without even looking up from what I was doing, I said: "What?"

Harper repeated himself, but this time he said it slowly, in one of those I'm not joking around this time voices : "I'm running away!"

Again, I didn't even look up:"Okay"

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Harper standing with one hand on the doorknob, he peered around the corner with a silly smile on his face and slowly asked: "Do you.. want me... to run away?"

I continued to act disinterested and said: "No, I do not."

At this point, Harper was really playing it up. Slowly for dramatic effect, he asked in a very pleading tone: "Why... don't you... want me to run away?"

This time, I looked at him and I said very matter of factly: "Because you are the love of my life, my world would be empty without you, and I would be sad forever!"

Harper smiled, apparently getting what he wanted, and the game ended as quickly as it started.