Huh?

[ this comes as a big surprise to him apparently! given how he kind of boggles at the screen for a couple seconds. people coming to his defense, what does that even mean. ]

Oh, uhh... well, I guess so. A lot of people were saying they could help me with, you know, stuff, if I needed it, and generally being nice and things like that. That's a thing that friends do, I think, so I guess I could call them that...