“How long’s it been? All those seem like good signs to me. Are you looking for undying love right away, honey? I’m sorry to tell you, it doesn’t work like that.”
“I’m — I don’t think so.” That’s why he actually waited this long before he began to fancy anyone, right? And yet everything still got screwed up. Sometimes he just wanted to give up. “We, er, haven’t spoken in a bit.”
“It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that he’s avoiding you because he likes you too, you know,” she points out. “You could go look him up yourself. If you like him, and the sex was nice — it was nice, right?”