[Despite herself, Carrie actually blushes slightly. That searching look - it's just this side of uncomfortable, the way he's so intent and then looks away. That charming voice paired with frustration and inability to say plainly why he's frustrated, that's something unsettling, but at least that's a familiar kind of unsettling:

It is never good to have someone so handsome that most people would trust him without question frustrated by you, even indirectly.

But it isn't really her he's frustrated with, is it?]

It can be, but... here, that only matters if someone decides they want to make outcasts of us, and hopefully they won't.

[She knows nothing of typical highschool politics, Edward. Nothing.]