He's reaching for the doorknob as Ned begins to speak, but he draws back his hand almost immediately when Ned finishes the question and begins to get into the explanation of it -- an explanation that sounds very much like one he himself would give, if he were feeling nervous about something -- and turns around to look at Ned, who decidedly isn't making eye contact.

"Um..."

He realizes that his own face is probably equally as red now, and he also realizes that his hesitation probably doesn't do much to reassure Ned. He hopes Ned recognizes that the hesitation isn't due to any lack of desire, on his part, to provide an answer or to acknowledge that he, too, likes what they have. It's just that he's not sure what the right answer is, what the answer that Ned's looking for is. What if he says what he thinks and Ned doesn't like it? What if he ruins everything just by answering a question like that? But then, he's never been good at giving people the answers they want. What he's always done is provide honest answers, and he'll do that here, too.

"Well, I mean, when I think about you, I guess I think of you as my boyfriend. If I were gonna introduce you to someone -- if we didn't have to keep things such a big secret -- I'd probably wanna introduce you as my boyfriend. So yes. We are. If you want to be. I mean, I don't know if that's what you want to hear, but that's how I see it."