Big Salmon Lake it seems to me

Eljay just kept staring at her and blinking as she responded to his fear. He might've thought it remotely funny... if he was someone else. If he was more his mother or his siblings. But now he just felt awkward and he just stared and blinked excessively at her for a good while longer until eventually he bumbled out a, "... Sorry..." that sounded awkwardly tossed up in the air rather than part of an actual mini-one-word-sentence. He looked away sheepishly after that and subconsciously licked his lips, feeling rather foolish.

"I... Should I.. leave?" he asked sheepishly, feeling out of place and like he should stop bothering the girl who was obviously much funnier than he.