Rikku stopped facepalming long enough to glare at him. "He asked if I was seeing anybody," she said dryly. "I said no, I wasn't, but our whole ... whatever ... came up. He did the whole, 'I'll talk to him' deal and I tried telling him it wasn't like that, but, you know."

She shrugged, switching topics. "I dunno, you and Rude hung out at the convention and you bugged him a lot, why does that mean you can't have a roommate?"