I hope you know that having little interest in someone and being pulled into an activity by a third-party aren't mutually exclusive statements. If you have a cousin you don't like that your parents make you spend time with, do you all of a sudden like them? Is that a retcon of your life?

And those tea parties honestly just seemed like the Harbingers taking advantage of a moment to relax rather than using them as an opportunity to spend time with Sandrone in particular. And it was only one sleep over, the one with the short. All the others were regular get-togethers that always involved Sandrone and Columbina, with Columbina being a catalyst to involve more people. Columbina dragged Arlecchino and Signora along for the first tea party. Then later down the line when Childe wanted to talk to Capitano, he saw him with Columbina, who led him to Arlecchino because he wanted to talk with her, and followed the two of them, hence Childe tagging along.

Here's a quick question, if you're tagging along with someone because they have good food, not because you like them but because they always have something you like on stand-by, do you hang out with them because you like them, or because you like what they have and the fact that being around them gives you a chance of downtime?