Wait, I’d say Juls initiated the one in the car. But I get your point.
I think, as the other anon said, she’s definitely more instinctive, and when she’s with Juls, it’s really easy to just want to be with her. But she wouldn’t be the first person to find it difficult to reconcile feelings with everything else that comes along with them, for us. We don’t get to just deal with the problems of a budding romance, it comes with having to change our conceptions of ourselves and dealing with homophobia and the politics of it all.
Juls is so introspective and has so many other priorities, it may be easier for her to have given it a think and gone, hmm, okay, I see. Val, her family’s far more image- and status-conscious. Even if she herself isn’t as much, it’s going to mean a lot of things for them and her. And she’s so bad with keeping things in, how quickly did she go and tell Guille! And even the late night talk with Lucia about love. Whatever shift this means for her, it’ll have to come out, and it’s going to be super messy.