She picked up the bottlecap, then spun it on the table, using it as a manual distraction as she got her thoughts in order. She'd learned to be chatty in the face of brooding from a master brooder, so. It was like free therapy? Creed-style?

Not having dated before was actually...kind of good? It meant it might be easy to work out even without his woman of interest on hand. "Well...do you want to? Right here, right now, do you want to show up on her doorstep and take her out?" Best to understand the facts first?