She definitely means it as a compliment. "Well, I like you so you don't have to worry about that," she tells him. Her nose scrunches up a bit then. "Not that I've ever really been in the popular crowd. At least not since the whole slay girl thing happened." It had ceased to bother her a long time ago. She hadn't wanted to run with Harmony's crowd. She still didn't, come to think of it.

She's a flow girl. Or...you know, good at going with the flow. Something like that. She thinks they're going to get along too. They already are, so that's a good indication of future relationship type things, right? She's never had a roommate that was a boy either, so they're very same boat-y. She's got a good feeling about it in any case. "Like a turtle," she quips. "Because...turtles crawl. Sort of? They're slow?" Words. Buffy can do them.