Force it? She was leery of even having said this much, just in case it was the wrong thing. But--he had a point and she nodded to acknowledge it.

"Sometimes I wonder if the three of us should hang out together. If it might be easier - or if maybe that would be putting myself in the middle of something that doesn't concern me."

Just...they both seemed to talk past each other sometimes, someone saying one thing and the other taking it a different way. She wondered if having a third person there would smooth little things over - or maybe make it worse.