Sweet goddess, Cal, shut up! She was doing you a solid here!

Cal was stuck here, already miserable about it. The last thing she wanted was to make it any worse for him. Which it would be, if Anakin and the other Jedi thought he was bad news or ostracized him or whatever. Their respect were so important to him--far to important to lose.

"Didn't even want to be here?" Arden scoffed. "You wouldn't even be here if I hadn't encouraged you! This is entirely on me. I wanted the tower picnic, not you."