Jean should do everybody a favour and not become any sort of relationship coach. Seriously. He sucks at this.

"It'd make things awkward between us." No, Armin certainly didn't think Angel would cut him off, but wouldn't they both end up second-guessing everything they'd do? Everything that came so easy now, whether it was laughing together, hanging out, or casually touching would be tinged with the knowledge of his awkward crush. And Armin was going to say no thank you to that. He had never confessed to Mr Newt and he wasn't going to start confessing to Angel now.