Oh no, he is not fumbling two interested persons in one night, the honour of the Pierces rests on it.

"C'mon- siddown, for chrissakes. Getting tangled up about exes is a terrible end to a first date. I'll close my lid about Erik if you do, and then we can both be lovely and charming and enjoy each other's company."

And he can put syphilis in Erik's blood at some later occasion for the crime of nearly costing him a man with a backside you could bounce a cheque off of.