“I’m not sure what to say, I just…”

<Connie leaves the room for a moment. When she returns, she has a stern expression on her face, though her cheeks are still red.>

“I want to be absolutely clear, that people don’t think that friendship is somehow ‘below’ romance or the other way around. Steven is my really good friend, and we’re not some lovey-dovey couple of teens like you might think. N-not that I would m-mind lovey-dovey, or anything…”