At first he'd been about to explain that he'd been preparing for his internship at the Ministry, but then Albus continued explaining his question and he wasn't sure what to say.

"I-- Of course we're friends. Is that not-- Are we no longer--" He can't even finish those sentences, it's too horrifying to him. But that didn't make sense either, Al had certainly acted like they were friends even before he knew about the difference in their ages. "I know we had that fight before we graduated but-- we settled that."