"Okay, casual hookups aren't your thing. Good to know." He shrugs, not at all offended or put off. The weirdly intense kissing thing before was- weird and intense and probably inappropriate in ways he doesn't really want to look at. Malcolm is not Carolina nor a replacement for her.

He's his own person.

That he's kind of sort of stupidly attracted to on his own merits bu also, shit he's not looking at. "Don't worry about it."