Alec was so damn frustrating! Aziraphale was trying to do right, wasn't he? He earnestly wanted Alec to know someone cared about him and enjoyed his company, that someone liked him and that he had a friend, if ever he wanted to accept the hand of friendship offered to him. No one had to be lonely.

Would have been nice, a tiny part of his heart thought, to have had confirmed that they were something like friends, instead of Aziraphale just being something a good man had a lot of pity, patience, and sympathy for.

"You're welcome," he said, meaning it, and flounced out.