She laughed. "It's not really a...conscious choice. I guess I'm usually just too busy to think about it." As well as an overactive imagination for all the ways it could go wrong.

Releasing Buffy's hand, she crossed her arms around herself, looking over the crowded hall. "Besides, if anything is proof that you two care about each other, it's how you've managed to stick it out despite shifts. Ups and downs included. Finding that... that's special." Nevermind if anyone had caught her eye. That comes dangerously close to letting herself consider that type of relationship at all.