Er... yes. It's just as embarrassing as it sounds.

*He bows his head, a flush coming to his cheeks. Unknowingly, he starts to ramble, unloading all his thoughts unceremoniously onto his friend.*

But I don't know how to feel about him in his child body. I know he's still the same, but the age gap between us is so large now... and I don't even know how he feels about all this. I ended up blurting it out to him to avoid having to tell him anything worse, and he didn't seem too bothered by it, but he didn't give me a concrete answer either. It might have all just been a huge mistake...