Noah paused, one corner of his mouth curling up just slightly in a smile. "You don't? And here I thought I got my cooties from you." He surprised himself with his actual ability to say something lighthearted. Had to be something about the use of the word cootie. Reminded him of his sister, made him smile every time. His hesitation had mostly been about the gesture. Something intimate about sharing water with someone else or maybe that was just his mind going to places it didn't need to be going.

His shoulders tensed just briefly. "Yeah, it's what I do." He said shrugging to forcibly relax the muscles there. He knew he had a problem with the apologizes and well that wasn't likely to change anytime soon it seemed. "Let's go with no one interrupting eh?" He offered as a way out of the whole blame game that he'd started. "Needed a minute to break anyway, hadn't since I started." At least to stretch something, if not to get his breath back.

"I'm glad," He said with all honesty, hazel eyes watching her as she spoke about her time away from the school. "I honestly don't know how-" his hands lifted in a helpless sort of gesture, "you did it before. All that... shit," for lack of a better word. For all the awkwardness that was ripe between them there was also something normal about talking to her. Though that was a slippery slope and one that Noah was doing his damn best to keep from going down each and every second. "I don't think you were ever going to turn into a basket case," he added with a slight frown crossing his features. He didn't like hearing that coming from her mouth. "Don't say that."