No, I wasn't implying you were easy! [He looks at the fire briefly, looking nervous. He really wasn't doing very well with this. He hadn't even addressed what Rikku had confessed.]

I'm... very bad at this. [He frowns and sighs sadly.] I don't know what I am Rikku. You're so comfortable in your sexuality and I just... I feel like I'm stumbling around in a dark room. I don't know what it feels like to have romantic feelings towards someone. It's still hard to know when I feel like being someone's friend. It's frustrating sometimes.

But I've never kissed anyone, never held hands, never hugged. I haven't even masturbated once. [Which Artemis would die before telling anyone else, but Rikku hadn't kept secrets from Artemis about his life. Artemis figures he shouldn't keep secrets either.] I'm jealous.