[Being rude without meaning to be, being rude while meaning to be. The Leon life.

Either way, he's legitimately startled. She has no reason to be this friendly to him, and yet here she is, trying to be friends. Naturally, Leon has to Leon at that.]

We aren't friends. [That comes immediately, even as he tosses his head slightly, looking away huffily.]

The fact that we are working together is a matter of coincidence and necessity and nothing more, so don't act as though it is.

[Friendship is hard.]