I FUCKING LOVE PAULIANA!!! SHE IS SOOO COOL AND THE WAY SHE MADE HIM FLUSTER HE IS SO CUTE ALL OF THIS IS SO CUYE I JUST LOVE THIS PAULIANA YOU GAVE HIM A HEART ATTACK I AM LOVING THIS
For once, I feel like it's not so much that she's dense, as that alternate explanations really are just so much more plausible at this point.
Nobody's seen him in love before so the idea that he's going to swoon and act on impulse like a teenager at such an important time is probably pretty far out of everyone's calculations.