"Yeah," Benson agreed. But sometimes he wondered if it was really that hard to find the right person--maybe it was just harder to keep the right person once you had her. Life can't be stopped from going on and getting in the way and at that moment, Benson thought that it absolutely sucked that he and Mallory had maybe met too soon. Maybe if they had met as single adults right out of college they would have had a better shot than by falling in love as teenagers.
And maybe they wouldn't have. Everything happened for a reason, after all, and he and Mal simply weren't supposed to happen--though Benson couldn't deny, even to himself, that if she wasn't taken now, seeing her again probably would have led to him asking to hang out--alone.
Not that it mattered.
"Well, I don't want to keep you..." he said awkwardly because he did want to keep her there talking to him.