This is all a lot to take at once. Reid is a bit of a skittish animal about making friends, let alone having a love life, and he stops short in the hall and raises his hands palm-out in the universal defensive gesture.
"Whoa, okay. You're not hogging me, I'm perfectly happy the way things are." He sounds openly skeptical and even a little disgruntled to be pressured out of his comfort zone. It's true; Spencer hadn't thought he'd make such a good friend, definitely this fast, the way he has with Lydia to start with. He thinks things are moving plenty quickly. "Why are you so invested in this? Don't try to tell me you need the support. You have more than adequate interpersonal confidence."
What does it matter to her if he's a shut-in or out dating people? It's not like he doesn't socialize. He just talked to his students for seventeen minutes!
Two perfectly manicured eyebrows lift with incredulity as the redhead looks back at Spencer when he says that she's not hogging him. "I am one hundred percent hogging you and I should be sharing my friend a little more, because he's kind of awesome," she replies, her expression softening into a smile.
He's right, though; Lydia hardly needs the moral support, because she's confident enough to feel like she's going to nail it no matter who she gets paired up with, but she still thinks it'd be more fun if they were both doing it.
"I have plenty of confidence, you're right. But I still think it would be more fun to do this if I knew that one of my best friends in this place was doing it, too. We can compare notes after. Come on, seriously, I promise it'll be fun, Spencer..." she pouts playfully, giving him her best set of big, round puppy eyes.
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"Whoa, okay. You're not hogging me, I'm perfectly happy the way things are." He sounds openly skeptical and even a little disgruntled to be pressured out of his comfort zone. It's true; Spencer hadn't thought he'd make such a good friend, definitely this fast, the way he has with Lydia to start with. He thinks things are moving plenty quickly. "Why are you so invested in this? Don't try to tell me you need the support. You have more than adequate interpersonal confidence."
What does it matter to her if he's a shut-in or out dating people? It's not like he doesn't socialize. He just talked to his students for seventeen minutes!
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He's right, though; Lydia hardly needs the moral support, because she's confident enough to feel like she's going to nail it no matter who she gets paired up with, but she still thinks it'd be more fun if they were both doing it.
"I have plenty of confidence, you're right. But I still think it would be more fun to do this if I knew that one of my best friends in this place was doing it, too. We can compare notes after. Come on, seriously, I promise it'll be fun, Spencer..." she pouts playfully, giving him her best set of big, round puppy eyes.