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There was a sharp glance up at Aree as the blood was wiped away and the wrist of her deceptively innocent arm kept in the petite teen's tightest grip. If it were to suddenly shoot out there would be no holding it in place, but there would at least be enough warning to take the hit. "It's not my fault you're way too..." Stubborn was the one that Audrey was going for, crazy never making the charts though it probably should have. "Tall." It was blandly delivered; she wasn't stupid and had caught the hesitation while her friend softened the insult. For reasons that Audrey could not explain, her cheeks were pinking up with an embarrassed blush that was rapidly spreading all down her neck. Desperately she wanted to tell Elzo to please shut up and go away, couldn't he see that this was a disaster waiting to happen?

"Yes. Boyfriend. Sorta just...happened. After you went on vacation. Like he said, been taking care of me and...happened. But nothing serious." It was a quiet statement under the prattling about food before she sat back, pulling knees up to her chest and hugging them to herself. Normally, Audrey was a pinwheel of body language that reached out to others. Touching Aree's arm to reassure her through the initial story, hugging Elzo when he came through the door. Had they been alone she probably would have been curled into his lap by then, or had Elzo never shown, she might have made a minor breakthrough with Tanzanite.

Once again her two worlds were colliding in the worst way possible, and she was retreating into herself like an island in an ocean of uncertainty. She could walk away from Charonite while flirting with Elzo, but when it was Tanzanite, everything was uncertain. Charonite wouldn't stab a student in broad daylight. Aree might have stabbed him in the center of the mall on a busy Saturday without blinking.

"Should get something filling and full of calories. Pizza would probably be best, I'm not really feeling running to the sink for water every five minutes, and Chinese doesn't stay with you long enough; you're hungry in three hours." Realizing that her voice sounded a lot like a sullen pout, Audrey tried to smile. "There's also nothing wrong with eating cinnamon rolls all the time. It's not like I'll get fat, I've never been able to get fat. I'm too active." Running down senshi was hard work, after all. Running away from senshi even harder work. There'd been training Victoria, scoping out Kinkade, picking up the slack and then the recuperation of her own promotion. God, there was still that to deal with.

"Either way, Aree is not allowed to leave. No argument, no protest. You said yourself that you don't have a place to stay, and I have an empty bed in my room when I pull all the crap off it." Crap being a pile of stuffed animals that she'd had since childhood. Nothing any of them hadn't seen before, but it also meant that tonight, Elzo was going home after dinner. The way the bluenette's luck had been running lately? She'd be lucky if Aree only stabbed him in his sleep.