She was a pain in the ass like that.

Kathy waited a second or two to see if he was going to respond and when it seemed obvious the answer was going to be no, she nodded once to herself and walked out of the closet, feeling a lot like she'd left part of her heart lying on the floor of it. But no one who didn't know her well would be able to tell just by looking at her face and that, she counted as a win.

And the brush of fingers over his arm as she walked by? Purely coincidental.