"Oh, nothing, I just wondered. I mean, I don't have much experience with, you know, being asked out and stuff so I wondered if there wasn't something I was missing." Something occured to him.
"Not that I'm saying Alfie asked me out! He wouldn't, but, like, he didn't." he wished that he wasn't so flustered as he said this because that might make him look a little less guilty about what he was saying.
Then again... "He wouldn't, though, right?" Crap, maybe it had been something more romantic and Julien had just missed it like every other overture - and how would he feel about that anyway, if that had been Alfie asking him out? It was suprising him that his knee jerk reaction wasn't 'no'.