no subject

[He's almost glad she can't see the expressions that flash across his face when she asks that question. No one has ever asked him that before-- not that he can blame them, since he'd deliberately cultivated the image that he and Inori were intimate as a means of hiding his need for transfusions. Certainly he's had no end of women who found him attractive - Ayase was never exactly subtle with her crush, and it was clear that Arisa fancied him too - but he'd never pursued anything with any of them.]

My position didn't exactly lend itself well to that kind of thing.

[It's partially true, and it's certainly a better answer than "I don't understand love and it frightens me."]