"I can get caring about someone without having romantic feelings for them, sure."

"I didn't ask because she looked really damn happy when she got that teapot." He shook his head. Okay, so he's an idiot. It's happened before. But wait! What if Valdis thought of them as more then friends? Ouch, that must have been tough to see. Poor her. "So I started drawing conclusions. You were kind of gone, so it was a touchy subject."