"Friendly." The answer is immediate. "Cause you seem really nice and-" he shrugged. "If you don't get sick of me, I could see us hanging out."

He could also see getting accused of being a bad influence or something--maybe not by Max, but by others. The worst part was, that wouldn't even be wrong. Sometimes he did make an effort to corrupt people. But only sometimes. He was feeling a smidge protective, in this case.