[They're pressed together in a manner that is impossible to ignore. Whereas another male might have found himself entirely flustered, Neil begins to recall the precise reasons why he brought Alex Seattle Geer to the craphole that is D.C.

Therefore, he falls to a strange kind of calm.]

...It's either I have peace, quiet, and loneliness without you, or your company drives me bananas. That's the choice I'm trying to make.