He scratched the back of his head as she confirmed his fear that she had indeed seen him running at an inhuman speed. "Yeah," he replied, "That." He sighed. He had become careless. If his parents found out he would likely be grounded again, but maybe she would keep it quiet, like Eden did. Or at least keep it more on the downlow than Mao did. "Yeah," he replied again, "That would be my thing."
His sheepish smile remained on his face as he looked up a bit to meet her eyes. He then tried to brush off some of the dirt as best he could. "Thanks," he told her, even though he knew, this time for sure, she was just being nice. "Nothing seems to be broken this time," he told her, "I kind of got distracted by the fireworks."
He looked around, again feeling embarrassed by the situation. "Sorry," he finally said, "I didn't mean to almost hit you."