Elise was surprised as note was slipped onto her desk. Her eyes widened and she smiled as she read it. For a guy who had difficulty feeling things and understanding his own emotions, he was fairly observant about the moods of others. She should have handled this differently. She should have played pretend and made excuses as to why she couldn’t spend time with him. Perhaps that would have caused him less trouble. Lesson learned, she needed to backtrack so as to upset him less. That in mind, she wrote her reply. The return note said: “The last dance was amazing. I was nervous but that is my equivalent of your adorable blush. But I have been thinking. Perhaps I am not a good friendship for you to have. You have been very honest about your past and your experiences and there are some aspects of me where I cannot return that favor. It is a poor payment for your openness.”<br/><br/>Originally she had considered pushing her reason for being distant off on embarrassment over being found by Jacob. Instead, she decided to try for a small measure of honesty. Because she couldn’t tell him about her proper childhood, and she couldn’t tell him about what she really was. Not without completely destroying his understanding of the world.