"Well, here I am," he pointed out. Normally, he would've taken that moment to wink, but right then he just felt to defeated to make the attempt.
He smiled at her when she opened her eyes again. "Yes, it really is." He still felt an intense level of uneasiness, like he couldn't talk to her at all, but this silence was much better than the awkwardness of earlier.
He took another big spoonful of ice cream and held it up for her to clink her spoon against once again, "To improvement," he said, then chuckled a bit. "And our mutual inability to behave in public."