Embarrassed

"Yeah... yeah, I should be around." Eli sits back and watches Ryan for a moment. It was obvious that she was not really okay. She was still upset and... rightly so.

"Ryan..." He stands up and nears her, but doesn't want to stop her if she'd rather just go. "I'm... I'm sorry. Right, wrong, indifferent... I'm sorry you got in the middle of all this." He never had really approved of Alec, though he wouldn't say so. But no matter, he really was sorry that Ryan was suffering right now.


Pete laughs and retracts his hand, leaning on his other arm to look at Nikki as she stared up at him. "Well... as long as I'm comfortable."

The pause that followed felt awkward. At least to Pete it did. He couldn't remember having awkward silences with Nikki before. But they'd just been kids. Maybe it was just because even though it felt like they'd never parted, it still had been ten years. Not everything was the same. Last they'd seen each other, he'd been twenty-three and she'd only been eighteen. She'd just been a teenager and now she was... a woman.

Pete blinks.

Shifting a little, he lowers his hand again and this time instead of ruffling her hair, his fingers run gently through it. He didn't know if it bothered her or not... but her hair was softer than he remembered.


Leo's eyes move up a little as he's brought into the kitchen to sit. His gaze goes to the table instead of the floor, but no higher. Cassy's question resonates in his head.

Without warning, he stands up, the chair scraping on the floor. Heading out of the kitchen, he stops, leaning on the doorway, his back to Cassy. Fighting the urge to walk out, he plants his feet, remaining stubborn this time.

"Afraid that if I spent any more time with you that I'd have to admit that I was falling for you."

There. He'd said it. And he also felt more stupid than he ever had before. Completely and utterly embarrassed, Leo leaves the kitchen and goes to the front door, but stops again. His hand smacks the wall and he growls in frustration. "I'm sorry..." He'd totally just made an idiot of himself. "I just... I'm sorry."