Peter caught her easily -- because she weighed, what? Twelve pounds? -- spinning her with the sheer joy that ... he'd gotten that over with and didn't have to get up the guts to ask one of the guys. Not that he wasn't friends with some of them, but they were the nerd buddy, now were they? Aubrey was the closest, but the language barrier issues and Peter's tendency to isolate himself in his science meant they weren't terribly close as actual human beings.
Not that Peter had many friends that were actually men, anyway.
"Oh, thank God. I thought I was going to have to get Logan to do it or something."