Ren and Nora are sitting on Nora's bed watching some animated thing on her laptop. Ren has ended up in the corner of the bed, shoved between the wall and Nora, who has basically decided to flop entirely over Ren.
"Hey, Ren?" Nora asks. "Do you have a crush on me?"
She asks it all of a sudden and Ren pauses the video and looks at her. "No," he says, "I don't. Do you?"
Nora shakes her head. "No, I don't," she says, "but some kids at school won't shut up about it, and I can't just chase them around with sticks, anymore, to get them to shut up. That stopped being okay when I was ten."
"Oh," Ren says. "Well they're dumb. You promise you don't have a crush on me?" he asks, again, still sort of worried.
"Yeah," Nora says. "You don't have boobs, anyway."
Ren starts giggling hysterically, "What the hell, man?"
Nora shrugs. "I mean, it's true."
Ren tightens his grip on Nora. "You're ridiculous."
"Yup."