[ any impotent squeaking and/or wheezing Rin may hear is just the tires, or the engine, or possibly just the wind?? (despite that they are stopped at a red light) it is definitely not the driver, struggling to breathe. ]

Umm, sorry, I forget nobody else lives vicariously through our eight-legged friends except me... I think she's [ wheeze; he's not protesting, though, because Rin very much needs as much hugtime as possible ] mad at me because I'm taking somebody that isn't her. —A-Anyways...

[ anyways what. he gets preoccupied in carefully executing a left turn without toppling the bike over, it's heavier than the essential weightlessness that he's used to. ]