Raleigh's listening to everything he says with a faint furrow between her eyebrows, like she's really, really listening. She's soaking it up like a sponge, and it's hard because he's going back and forth between advice and... he does this thing, both of them do, when they talk about each other and it's amazing and she knows it, just when he sort of... drifts. Because of Joel.

But Raleigh's listening, and she chews on her lip, looking away when he looks at her, and she sort of hunches her shoulders in a shrug. "Michael was... fine," she said after a second. "I mean, he was sort of the most boring man alive, but he was... fine, it just- I mean.... Uh. There-" She just finally decided that she needed to spit it out. "I went out with this guy on Thursday, he seemed- he seemed really nice, you know?"

She swallows thickly. "Turns out that he just really wanted the scoop on the girl who was kidnapped with Corrine Flynn, before he ended up getting in a fistfight with Fabrice." She's not looking at Spencer, because it's upsetting. It's upsetting, and her jaw's tight. "And just- I mean, I-" She's not going to bring up Jason again, even though she's wondering if maybe-- maybe it's just... too much of a mess. Maybe she should just wait for people to ask her, because the only thing she's done that was okay was when she wasn't expecting anything, when she's gone on dates with friends. The stuff with Coop, the stuff with Jason before she started wondering if it was actually something - those were good. They made her feel... special.

Instead of this crap. "Maybe it's just... not for me."