[Stuff like this (hugging, intimacy, girls) always makes him feel uncomfortably embarrassed so he looks away again, blushing lightly. He doesn't move away, however, choosing to stick closer and offer comfort however he can.]

That's right. It's what we were trying to do until, uhm, [He fell.] things happened. And anyway we don't know what happened in there either, so we can worry about it later. It's... it's in the past now.