"I don't like this," I say quietly.
"This distance. This… ignoring me.
His eyes stay on me, watching.
"What do you want, Elaine?" he asks.
Straight to it.
I hold his gaze.
"I want you to stop pretending I don't exist."
Thick silence..
Then I take another step and Now we're close, reeally close…..so close I can see the tension in his shoulders. The way his hands flex slightly at his sides, like he's holding himself back from something.
His gaze dips..,,just for a second, then comes back up, but that small movement tells me everything.
He notices and he feels it, he e's just trying not to react And that? That makes something in me push further.
"Or is this your way of punishing me?" I ask quietly, which has expression hardening slightly.
"You think this is a game?" he says.
"No," I reply just as softly. "I think you're avoiding me."
I see a crack in that control he's been holding onto.
