"No no no it's, um." There is just no easy way to explain this. Seth's hand has sprang away and Daniel doesn't know how he feels about that, relieved or apologetic or terrified, and this was it, this was one of the fundamental issues with Failed Relationship Number One - Daniel doesn't know how to communicate this.

"I, I like you." Yes, and that all sounds very twelve-year-old when he puts it like that. "And the stuff before - was nice."

Just so there's no confusion there. That was nice. A bit of a divergence from Daniel's preference for slow-burning, step-one-friendship, step-two-get-to-know-each-other-personally-and-at-length, step-three-maybe-take-this-to-a-new-category approach which is, again, the reason why he has so little relationship experience to speak of - but it was nice. Really nice, in fact.

"But in, in terms of, of, you know." He'd like to make an illustrative hand motion but that would just not be appropriate. "It's not really my - I'm not - that's not really what I, what I'm good at, er, what I prefer - ah, no, that's not. It's not. I mean, I'm not."

Ah, hell.

"I'm, I'm." Another deep, fortifying breath. "I'm not - interested in, in other, in certain - aspects."