I said you would make a cute puppy! How is that suspicious???

Ah, crap. And this is why just texting with Nina for a long period of time, it always seemed to hit a point where there was a miscommunication or a misstep and things got all weird all of a sudden and he was too much of a spaz with no social skills to know what it was.

Fine, I take it back, you could never be that cute puppy???

And he....didn't know what to do with that last part, really, so he figured, since he'd already screwed up, it would probably be better to just not even touch it.

But then he felt bad, because she'd feel bad if he didn't say it back, right?

And I miss you, too, he added, you...

He tried 'weirdo' first, thought better of it, typed out 'spaz', thought better of that...thought for a moment, and just went for confusing girl and sent it.

Because it was undeniably true right now.