"You don't have anything to be sorry about," he said, leaving the kitchen to fall back on his couch. Michael rubbed at the bridge of his nose. "I'm the one who… made assumptions. About what you wanted, and why. The appropriate response to light flirtation is not sexual assault. Even if I wasn't your teacher."
At the time, it had felt like something more. An invitation, a request. He'd been very determined to remain utterly disinterested in her, but it had popped like a bubble at the slightest disturbance. The slightest indication that she might want him. Even now, when she said it–
But it had never even crossed his mind that her desire might be more than purely physical. She'd been so blasé about it. Those were the kinds of things that very young women thought, naïve young women that he would never dare come near. He'd thought she was too smart for that.
"You're not stupid," he said with a frown. "You're worth… more than I have. Please don't let this make you think otherwise. You're young and beautiful and brilliant and hard-working, and someday you're going to meet someone worthy of you. And you'll be very glad you didn't waste time and energy on me. Okay?" He didn't like it that she sounded like that. Hurt. He wasn't trying to hurt her. He was trying to do the exact opposite of that.
"You don't have to pretend," he said, even though that was basically what he'd been suggesting. It didn't sound right when she put it that way, though. "You don't owe me anything. I'd like it if you could be discreet, obviously, but don't – it doesn't do either of us any good to pretend nothing happened. Between us." And, also, he probably couldn't. He was actually a terrible liar. "We just need to… be adults about it."
At the time, it had felt like something more. An invitation, a request. He'd been very determined to remain utterly disinterested in her, but it had popped like a bubble at the slightest disturbance. The slightest indication that she might want him. Even now, when she said it–
But it had never even crossed his mind that her desire might be more than purely physical. She'd been so blasé about it. Those were the kinds of things that very young women thought, naïve young women that he would never dare come near. He'd thought she was too smart for that.
"You're not stupid," he said with a frown. "You're worth… more than I have. Please don't let this make you think otherwise. You're young and beautiful and brilliant and hard-working, and someday you're going to meet someone worthy of you. And you'll be very glad you didn't waste time and energy on me. Okay?" He didn't like it that she sounded like that. Hurt. He wasn't trying to hurt her. He was trying to do the exact opposite of that.
"You don't have to pretend," he said, even though that was basically what he'd been suggesting. It didn't sound right when she put it that way, though. "You don't owe me anything. I'd like it if you could be discreet, obviously, but don't – it doesn't do either of us any good to pretend nothing happened. Between us." And, also, he probably couldn't. He was actually a terrible liar. "We just need to… be adults about it."
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