[He lets her talk, and doesn't stop the rubbing, but he's thinking hard while she's talking. Because while Barry and Cisco and Gwen might have some kind of hooking-up-based relationship and are all dancing around their feelings—from what he's seen, both Barry and Cisco are experts at doing that—he isn't sure if he would count as just someone Gwen casually sleeps with on a semi-regular basis.

Things are still fairly simple with him and Cisco, just occasional texts demanding a second opinion on a calculation or horrible puns and yelling, but Barry is a different story. He has no idea where he and Barry stand, on anything, not since Barry came straight to him after encountering Eobard Thawne face to face for the first time.

He's hidden his own feelings before, he knows why it happens and how much easier it is to avoid talking about them, but...] You don't. And I don't necessarily want to call an end to this. I think we both know that would be a challenge.

[Yes, there's a 'but' coming. He's just trying to find the way to phrase it.] ...but they know me and I know them, and I don't know if I fall under the umbrella of 'other people' the way someone else might. [Someone else who hasn't held Barry and talked him down and kissed him a lot against a wall in the process.]