Third person
“Hey… Is everything okay?” Kayden paced into Nina’s room, watching her eyes carefully until she darted them away.
She closed and locked the door behind him. “Uh, yeah. I think so. Just… something I wanted to talk to you about. Before I lose my nerve.”
He pressed his lips together, nodding. Trying to think of some words to say while his mind was distracted, coming up with a dozen different possible reasons why Nina might be acting like this.
“Come here,” she said, moving to the bed and taking a seat perched on the edge. When Kayden sat down beside her, so close their thighs were touching, she regretted not planning on sitting somewhere else, anywhere other than a bed, for this chat…
“So?” he prodded gently. “What’s up?”
“I know you and I,” Nina started, “we’re not committ
