"We've only met a few times. Bit early to be calling someone like me a friend, it only seems far that there's at least some kind of payment going on."

He shrugs a little, while he's used to people at parties referring to him as a friend, he knew what friend meant in that instance. But when it's a teen girl, he's not sure if it should sound sinister or endearing for a 48 year old man to be lumped in with her friends.