"It's probably a healthy mixture of both," Lydia confesses, wetting her lips and looking down again, shrugging a little. Allison wouldn't have been out there at all if Lydia hadn't managed to get herself kidnapped by the nogitsune. She wouldn't have been out there fighting to begin with if she weren't trying to save Lydia. But Lydia doesn't blame herself for that as much as she blames herself for not being able to communicate more clearly to Allison why she needed to stay away. She would've died to save her best friend...but Allison beat her to the punch.

"You're probably right, though. If I can leave her with acceptance, I'll take it." A soft sigh escapes her. "Well this got dark real fast, didn't it? Sorry about that. That definitely wasn't my intention," Lydia apologizes with sincerity.

From the way things are going, Lydia would have to guess that this is not going well. It's probably the worst attempt at a date she's ever been on, if the aim is specifically to either go home with him or take him home with her. If she wants to look at it in the way she'd tried to talk Spencer into looking at it — as an opportunity to get to know someone new and maybe make a friend — maybe she's making decent progress.

She's about to ask if he wants to just get out of here when their food arrives. Lydia takes that as a sign to change the subject and see if there's any salvaging this thing. "What else do you like, besides music, I mean?"