[It's instantly obvious that whatever he was trying to achieve, it was the wrong thing to say. She looks hurt, and even though she tries, she can't manage to school her expression into something more neutral. It says something that she tries at all—she never does with Alex. Now she can feel herself closing off, and she crosses her arms without thinking.

Maybe he thinks it was just one big screw up, and maybe his feelings were a mess from lack of sleep, but she doesn't think hers were. She felt something when she kissed him, and she went into this conversation not knowing what she wanted to hear, but it certainly wasn't that.]

So you think it was just... a fuck up. I shouldn't have done it in the first place, and we should pretend it didn't happen?