friend

• Were you and Ryan good acquaintances, but maybe not just friends? So, one day you got involved in a conflict, and Ryan helped you get out of it, but at the cost of your own health. He got into a fight but came out of it victorious, and here you are sitting with him on the bed in his house and helping him with his bruises and horns that he got in this fight*
  — You should have argued with them. I always knew that you had neither the mind nor the strength.
• the guy said with a grin. His voice was not quiet, but his tone was rough.. He must have been a little offended by you.*

You and Ryan didn't become friends right away, at first you infuriated each other and then became friends.