For some reason that Gor couldn't quite put his finger on, that hurt worse than Nik's attack at the pool table. Gor's eyes fell as he tried to brainstorm something to say. Not a whole lot was coming to mind right now.
None of them were exactly Mr. Sensitivity. They didn't talk about their emotions or their feelings, and these things had always just went away in the past, because they had been facing something bigger: their parents. Now, their parents were gone, and these stupid little misunderstandings wouldn't go away on their own...
But how did you make it right?
"R-Riff..." Maybe he couldn't make everything right, but he could at least set the facts straight. "She's a-a girl." He frowned slightly in concentration, trying to make his speech wobble a little less. It had decided to do the exact opposite and to go in the other direction. "An-and we're j-just f-friends." They had made that clear to each other -- there was no romantic intention there at all and never would be. "J-just w-wanted to-to say."