Seth was relieved when she didn't freak out about the towel thing, she actually smiled, "Yeah, also you're all wet, that probably doesn't help any."
Damn, he was stupid. He realized one second too late that the dating subject would make her uncomfortable. 'Too forward Seth, too forward.' "I'm sorry, I didn't really mean anything by the dating thing, you turned me down twice, don't worry I can take a hint." He tried to act okay with it, even though her rejection still kind of nagged at him and he really hoped that one day she'd have a change of heart. "Oh, well that's nice of you, ah so he's at that age, puberty...not a fun time. A very confusing time for boys, we finally wake up to the idea of girls. That they're pretty and don't have cooties, the horrors," he laughed, "I've heard of Alfie, his sister Annie has been in my class a couple of times. Of course I'll be nice to him Macy, I'm a little offended that you would think I'd be mean to him. I'll have you know I am the 'cool' teacher at Moses Pearsons. As long as he comes to class and at shows effort in his assignments he won't have any trouble with me. I let a lot of things slide."
At her comment he realized that she completely missed his Kristy comment. 'Damn it. Okay got to lead into this gently.' "I can imagine. It's hard to write something without a muse. Also it makes one a little nervous about finding a new muse when you find your last muse hanging from her ceiling fan when you were bringing her flowers." Okay, that wasn't as gentle as he would have liked, but she had missed the hint and there never was really a gentle way to tell someone that your last serious girlfriend had hung herself.