"So was I! I didn't not want to be around you. But it's a little weird to have your girlfriend suddenly be your boyfriend, especially after Bart kissed me!" It was his stomach churning that pointed him to the fact that he'd said something he probably shouldn't have.

"That's not...I didn't mean..." Except he did, of course. There wasn't any real way that he could unsay that Bart had kissed him.