"You don't have to," Alfie said, but it wasn't a point of being outdone, for him. He didn't have a lot of money, so if Julien wanted to pay, he wouldn't fight him for it.
"Are you ... like... uncomfortable, Jules?" he didn't mean to ask it, but he also didn't want to let it sit, and it seemed to matter maybe a little too much to Alfie that Julien have a good time, even if he didn't want to think about why.