Allen paused, he didn't exactly understand why the other seemed so nervous. Maybe that was the way they always were for the most part. Maybe there was a reason behind it. Either way the obvious answer wasn't necessarily the conclusion he was getting at.

He was quickly to focus more on one aspect of the confession than the other and to Allen it seemed like nothing more than something a friend would say to another friend, right? You like friends after all. It was pretty decent logic.

"And I like you. As much as we don't know each other we could be great friends." And there it was. He didn't understand what Daia might have meant.