"I would think they would like it if we ran into each other," Viola responds lamely. He doesn't need to make the point, she can make it for herself. She'll need to be more direct. But.

Her spine straightens and she squares her shoulders against an attack that he isn't making. "Would you like that, though? If your crush were direct with you? Doesn't that take all of the... excitement out of it?" That electric feeling deep in your belly.