How About Coming over to My Place?

"I know, but I'd still like to see you in person." Yukari nervously tightened her grip on her cell phone. "You don't want to?"

"It's not that… it's just…" After thinking it over, Seiji decided to be forthright with Yukari. "I mentioned before that I have someone I'm living with, right?"

"Yes."

"I'm living with my adopted younger sister. She told me that she hoped that I wouldn't get a girlfriend in the immediate future so that she could stay with me like this for a while longer," Seiji confessed. "I promised this to her to temporarily maintain the status quo, until she feels more assured living together with me. That's why… it's not that I'm not willing, it's that during this time, I don't want to… um…"

He didn't know how to express himself.

"Can I understand it as you not wishing for an overly intimate relationship with girls during this time period?" Yukari asked.

"…Yes, I suppose you could say that."