Elise wasn’t sure about entering the dorm room. Was simply leaving the door open with the intent of allowing her to enter enough? She doubted it, and wasn’t willing to risk it. “I am sorry, then, if I insulted you father. I was raised with the idea that the family you love is the one that you choose, because the family you come from was beyond your control. It seems as if this is simply a cultural difference of opinion and I should not have assumed ours was the same.” She paused for a moment, considering her options. “May I come in? It technically is against the rules for me to ask or for you to say yes, but the conversation is important to me.”<br/><br/>After a longer pause she spoke again. “Jacob knows me through the ways that I react to things. He assumes things too, I suppose.” Just like he was assuming she would back down and  just take his blackmail instead of standing up to fight back. “If you feel like you’ve caused  me any trouble or are likely to, you are mistaken.. All you have done to me is give me a dancing partner worth my time, where I don’t have to teach or plan ahead but can simply dance and enjoy myself. It is the greatest gift I have had since I was orphaned and given a home by my sponsor. Someone I don’t feel like that counts as trouble.”