"I don't understand," PitViper said, confused. "I think you're reading way too much into this."
"I'm not! Look, all I'm saying-"
"We collaborated a few times. That does not make sexual tension," PitViper rebutted.
"I never said it did! Can you let me finish?"
PitViper waited.
"All I'm saying," Laburnum said, "is that *some people*, not me, *some people* might, if they were ship-obsessed, think that there's sexual tension between us."
"So what? You've got a significant other!"
"Like that stopped the shippers," Laburnum snorted.
"What's your point?" PitViper asked.
"Wanna make out?"
There was a pause.
"Well... I don't have anything else better to do..."
"Good."
"You could have just asked me first, though..."
"Eh, it's more fun this way."