Adam dared tear his gaze away from their hands to meet Allegra instead, and immediately regretted it. This wasn’t fair! How was he supposed to focus and think about serious matters when she was looking annoyingly adorable?! He was rather endeared by the mix of confusion and determination written all over her features, by the seriousness with which she took all of this. Which honestly was the correct response to the situation, it really was just him who was being immature.

“I don’t know,” the boy finally responded, echoing his earlier response. But how was he supposed to know these things? It’s not like he spent his free time analyzing his own behaviour or reactions to certain situations, so he had no idea why he did things. He just did them.

But it wasn’t very fair to the little Ravenclaw who was clearly putting in most of the effort here, to receive nothing more than a chorus of ‘I don’t know’s. So Adam was silent for a moment, looking away from her and trying to gather his thoughts, to find an answer to her question. Or, at least, explain why he didn’t have an answer. “It’s just… When I’m talking to you, I just… My mind wanders, I guess. I can’t really focus, so I just… forget things, or blurt out the first thing that comes to mind even if it’s not the right answer…” He trailed off, brows furrowed, and met her gaze again. “Can you ask me something else? I’m sorry Moon, I just—I can’t really figure out why… why it’s like this with you.”