I'm sorry if I made you worry. [There's still fondness to the apology; he's aware that it might not be necessary to say, but he is sorry.] It's... almost funny to think how alike we knew we were when we met, but we still worried.

[fingers find Basch's to entwine them, thumb brushing over the other's skin. Funny how neither man realised that maybe the other was feeling just as awkward for similar reasons.]