[ Zephirin lowers his fork. Whether his friends are cool has never occupied his thoughts — there is an awareness that some of his peers admire him from a distance, and Adelphel is popular and relishes the attention, he knows, but the others don't receive the treatment reserved for a certain group of students in particular. ]

We rarely go to the cafeteria together. [ Guerrique isn't the type to stay still in one place, and so he bounces around between his friends; Adelphel and Janlenoux have their commitments and interests that prevent any regular sitting down in peace, too. ] I'm not opposed to introducing you, but it's likely that it would be just the two of us, at first.

[ In part because the alternative might be too much, all at once. ]