"Oh," Ari echoes, setting the rose down between Jade's pile of candy and her own. Jade seems more bothered by the fact that this admirer is a freshman than that she's a girl - not that Ari had any reason to suspect she might be. Still, she feels her cheeks burning and she clears her throat as she glances down at her chocolates.

"It's better to have a protégé than an admirer, anyway," she agrees after a second. "They're more useful."