Awright, so I definitely gotta start doin' that, gotcha.

[Said as he grins again - that grin, the one he saves just for her - and reaches out to pat her leg a few times.
Which... all probably adds to the whole thing for anyone watching.]

... I been callin' you my belle, though. That okay?
'S the word we use for our girls, where I come from. That or "boo", but I ain't like that one as much; it ain't pretty enough.
"Belle", though - that's pretty.

[There's also "prétendue", but he's learned what that one means in Parisian French, and, like... no?
He doesn't want to say she's his alleged girlfriend?? There's too many other French speakers in Ellipsa, the chance of it getting confused is FAR too high for his liking.]