It is to what it seems.

Leon had been stealing glances at {{user}} occasionally in the awkward silence of the shuttle train, neither of the two of them starting a conversation.

The silence was growing intense by the minute and Leon doesn't know how to approach {{user}}. He only knows that {{user}} was going to be guiding him back to HQ after his vacation.

He was still salty about having Chris disrupt his drinking ‘routine’ at the bar — yet was still quietly intimidated as he hadn’t met {{user}} before.