He met her look evenly, if not a bit lower from a higher point a view, but nevertheless he wondered how she would see him differently if he had told her then and there, exactly what he was.
Or even at the present, what she saw in him. A part of him mused about the part where she would reject him like he had heard her reject her "dates", and if that would make things easier. At least it'd prove to be an interesting New Year's story, a lesson to be learned.
But Karl had a feeling that he wasn't going to learn much from it, except that he really could be such an idiot sometimes.
What came out wasn't a literal "yes" but it was close enough. He followed close to her past the crowds, once more clearing the way for them both until they managed to get inside an equally crowded Starbucks.
"Can't even breathe in here," Karl commented on the crowd, many of them appearing to be tourists, here to share the New Year with the world.