"He's definitely a real person, not just a dream, I think the awkward conversation we had when I told him about the dream is evidence enough," she answered. That conversation had certainly gotten off to an awkward start and then headed to somewhere around almost mildly depressing before taking a sharp turn and... it hadn't actually been as bad as she'd been expecting it to have been. Gemma blinked at Higg's last question. "What? No we're not... well, we weren't dating when I had the dream."
Apparently she wasn't quite done with awkward conversations yet. Not that talking with her brother was ever awkward but she certainly could've been a lot more articulate with her reply than she had been.