If he had been looking, he'd have noticed the predatory light come to her face before she relaxes her expression. Well! Here she'd been angling for a lightly flustered laugh, that sort of thing. 'Girl you like' has such a broad range of possible meanings after all. To hit him this hard this instantly kid must have it bad, and be quite juvenile indeed.

"Ahhhhhh," she says drawing the word out for a long second before ending it in a chuckle. "So that's how it is. For how long?"