<em>~Mila, at dinner~</em><br/><br/>Mila watched as Nicci walked out of the room.  Smart, she thought, to step away from the tension for a few minutes.  She turned her attention back to the table as Mari and Marcus started to converse about Mari's family.  She listened to the other woman's words.  What did that feel like, she wondered, to come from a family who accepted you?  She had no clue what that felt like.  All of her life, she'd been judged harshly by those who loved her.  Would she be the same, or would she be accepting like those that Marisol loved?  She knew which way she wished to be.<br/><br/>And so maybe she needed to start now with being accepting and loving.  She looked at Vince and gave him a small smile.  His aggressiveness a few moments ago, in the way he had defended her to Bo, had honestly frightened rather than comforted her.  She'd grown up with men who became aggressive when they were angered, and to see that here hit her hard.  But the baggage she carried, her past, should be her problem to deal with and not his.  His reaction had not been directed toward her, it had been aimed at Bo.  And Bo was a big boy, capable of handling himself.<br/><br/>And that brought her to Bo.  Why did it bother her so much that he thought she would have sex with Vince already?  And even worse, why had she reacted with as much sadness as she had?  Obviously, Bo's opinion mattered and carried as much weight as anyone else's; they were all in this together, and he had as much a right to her as anyone else in the house.  And that, to her at least, meant that he had a say so about her actions, although nobody had more say than she did.  She knew what was in her heart, and he had no reason to.  He wouldn't know her until they had spent time together.  If he had made a snap judgment, so had she.  So the way to fix this wasn't to be saddened or insulted by his words, but rather to let him know her better.  She looked at him, her lips poised in a small smile, hoping he would look in her direction.  The first step to bridging any gap between them would be to let him know that she was not upset.