*is actually quite a bit more nervous about hearing that word out loud, but hiding it even better, so...yay?*
*allows himself some small feeling of encouragement, even if today has definitely been one of those trying days, full of words like dalliance and phrases like Lord Glorfindel's track record and love can't be love if it's wrong* It is important. Even my music hardly... *trails off with another shrug, because you can't relate to that either and it's been so long since he's played or sung that he's not sure he can relate* Yeah. It's a big deal.
You don't have a crush on me too now.
*isn't fool enough not to understand there's some real fear there, beneath the jocularity*
*deadpans* I honestly didn't think it was possible to be less attracted to you until just now.