Iris can feel her face heating up as she flushes, eyes going wide. "Eli, please! I mean, yes I kinda... have a little crush on you but like, that's to be expected, I suppose. But I never exactly pictured it going anywhere," she says, giggling nervously.

"Aaaanyway. You're gay? I didn't know that. Do you have a boyfriend?" she asks, glad to have a new topic to latch on to distract him from the old one.