"Oh my god, don't make it sound like that, I wasn't...avoiding you, you monster." Neil goes to the couch and crashes dramatically into it, sprawling across all the cushions like it was some kind of a fainting couch or something.

"I just--I felt silly and awkward and I wanted to feel less silly and awkward so you wouldn't get all up in it about it." Consideration. He's feeling better about it today, a couple days in, even if he's not comfortable.