[FEELINGS ARE HARD, this is true. Especially for a guy who normally deem them irrelevant. It's not that he makes an effort to push them away or anything, but he doesn't exactly linger on them or figure them out - hence the social awkwardness he sometimes falls into.]
[Romantic feelings ... are a gray uncharted area and he's got no clue how to navigate. Still, when he wants to, he's not bad at reading people. And he can tell she's sort of anxious, but also sort of anticipating something.]
[He licks his lips in a subconscious show of ... hesitation. Weighing his words, despite how playful they were previous.]
Why, don't you have any tricks of your own?
[He's digging himself deeper and he knows it. But he's still not SURE about it.]
wellp I GUESS WE SHALL SEE !!
[Romantic feelings ... are a gray uncharted area and he's got no clue how to navigate. Still, when he wants to, he's not bad at reading people. And he can tell she's sort of anxious, but also sort of anticipating something.]
[He licks his lips in a subconscious show of ... hesitation. Weighing his words, despite how playful they were previous.]
Why, don't you have any tricks of your own?
[He's digging himself deeper and he knows it. But he's still not SURE about it.]