@blt,
We might be underestimating Jeph. He might be planning something of a romantic polygon of some sort with various incompatible crushes and official romantic pairings meeting in The Secret Bakery and slowly working themselves out in the most painfully funny ways possible.
How would this work? You have Clinton interested in Brun who (might) be interested in him in return but may also be interested in Elliot in at least a "he's a cute fluffy giant plush toy" sort of way. However, Elliott is definitely interested in Brun but is too shy to act on it and may feel constrained from acting because Renee is interested in him and he doesn't want to be the cause of contention between two friends. Elliott and Renee might even be officially dating before long, no matter how bad an idea they both think it is, simply because Renee insists that they have to because she finds him attractive and has been doing the whole 'denial' thing by teasing him. Such an endearingly neurotic reason for dating would fit in with the overall atmosphere of QC.
Just for irony's sake, the original main cast should all become aware of this mess and hypocritically pronounce how they'd never let their personal lives get this screwed up!
Of course, Brun will be the vertex of all of this and, frankly, because she's so hard to read, I have no idea what she will think. Because of this, I can't even guess how this will all turn out.