I love hanging out with you, too.

[If his hands weren't full at the moment, he'd be scratching his cheek at the last part.]

I mean, to be entirely fair to you, I'd forgotten about my own birthday for... God, I think it was actually a couple weeks later when I realized "oh, shit, I'm seventeen now!" So, uh... I don't hold it against you or anything. Obviously.

[He pauses.]

This was more than worth the wait, anyway.