"Well, of course not on purpose." She couldn't help but to roll her eyes a little at that, sticking her tongue out at him as she did so. "I mean, if I didn't like someone and wanted to make their life difficult in some way, inviting them over and then being a bad hostess would be way too much work, and not nearly effective enough. And why else would I be a bad hostess on purpose?"
When he asked how she was, she pursed her lips together for a moment, thinking, "Mm, well. Everything's okay, I guess. Not great, not awful." She shrugged a little, adding, "I wouldn't want to talk your ear off about my problems anyway. They're not all that important." Well, okay, maybe some of them kind of were--like the thing where her parents were getting into fights about her because her dad couldn't bring himself to rein her in when she was being irresponsible--but that wasn't what he was there to talk about. And, besides, she wasn't really comfortable talking about it in general.