The awkward build-up was almost inevitable with them ever since what'd happened during the Blight. Not that he regretted anything that'd happened, aside from the interruption.
"We.... should probably keep from avoiding things," Aedan knew that this probably wasn't going to end well, but sometimes, you just had to take that sort of risk. "I mean, considering how it kinda makes it awkward and weird to be around each other sometimes..."
He'd honestly lost track of the number of times things'd gotten close and then one of them had panicked and made up an excuse to get away.