Properly

When I returned to Eguchi-sensei, the drive home was fairly normal. She focused on driving while I simply sat next to her, occasionally admiring her from the side.

Likewise, whenever she would stop at a red light, she'd use that chance to admire my figure.

Throughout the ride, we're like an old couple who have already spent a long time together. We enjoyed the serene silence over anything else.

Well, I didn’t want to distract her too much from driving so… I had to hold back on that.

Nonetheless, we still got some small talks going on in between but nothing too important to our situation.

They’re the kind of conversations one would bring up for an idle talk. For example, she told me some drunken stories that involved Orimura-sensei.

Yeah. She specified that it was all Orimura-sensei because she wasn’t drunk at those times. They’re really the best of friends for almost a decade now.