Julien looked away faux-casually as Alfie looked over at him, red with embarassment but trying to ignore it.
The way Alfie answered him immediately made him want to ask 'if not her, then who?' but he clamped down on that part of him and bundled it into a closet, locking the door behind him.
"Oh..." he said. He wasn't quite sure how to react to that because he wasn't quite sure how he felt. And why should he feel anything anyway? "Just not bothered at the moment?" he asked and wishing that they'd slipped into another line of conversation.