@goggles-and-noodles continued from here
“Of course you--” she began, but then she stopped herself. She was reminding herself, uncomfortably so, of her brother at his most stubborn. But her heart was pounding, and the pain of it made it hard to think.
“Okay. I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” she said, and she sounded breathless. The look on his face physically hurt her. She hated causing her friend so much distress. But he had to know, he was her friend. “Come over for dinner anyway--as an apology, if you’ll accept it, for the... mistake. You’ll get along with my big brother. And we’re in the same class, right?” She took a deep breath to steady herself. “We should be friends.”
She would show him. She would prove it to him. They were friends.