Eli feels as if her nerves freeze, almost like she knew eventually Nozomi would ask that and she was dreading it. She doesn't really know how to answer it either.

"Well we were busy, and it just didn't seem like..." she stops, and lets out a harsh exhale. She shouldn't make excuses, not now. Not with Nozomi. "I'm sorry. That was really wrong on my part. I think I was still just thinking through all this. But I do want things to go back to how they were. Including that."