At this point, Vitali was starting to develop a number of questions inside of his mind that she more than likely would have lied about. If she were up to something, which he still wasn't sure about, then she probably wouldn't have told him at all. She would have painfully done her best to ignore anything that he would have asked about in that respect. For that matter, she might have even skirted some of his questions.<br/><br/>As a result, he decided to keep them rather demure for the time being as he continued to hold the door open for her. Looking back for the time being, he shut the door once she was out. If she had been up to it, he would have started to walk as he spoke to her. Perhaps due to the fact that he had to be in good physical condition to work the sort of job he did, it seemed like Vitali was walking unusually quickly.<br/><br/>Still, the one question that he had already asked had been pretty uncomfortable for him. He didn't want to think of her as a romantic object, considering that he was, after all, someone who thought of her as family. That being said, they had no biological connection. They weren't even the same race. He had just been close to her, and that's why he had come to think of her in that way.<br/><br/>Eventually what had surprised him the most was her blatant honesty. He turned back toward her and sighed softly before his shoulders started to droop ever so slightly. Some part of him had actually wished that everything had still been so simple as well, but it clearly wasn't. A ton had changed, and there wasn't any way for them to lie about it. Maybe, though, he could have tried a bit of honesty with her as well.<br/><br/>"Would it be too scandalous if I were to admit that I sort of like to think of you in that way as well? I just don't like to think much about it."