"Hey, it's okay..." Alfie sat up a little more, not wanting Julien to get upset about it and worried he'd made something worse. "Really, I mean, I get it.... you're sort of quiet and all. I just figured you'd want to hang out for a while before school gets started." And part of him hoped that Julien wanted to hang out with him, even if he didn't want to think about why that might be.