The topic would unlikely crop up if she didn’t know there was one to begin with. Valerie had made a point of telling him things since they started dating, things that weren’t easy, things she shouldn’t be telling him at all. Things that weren’t exactly easy to fit into a conversation but she did it all the same. As for pushing buttons in public places, how the hell was she meant to know what he’d been attempting? All Brian had said was that he knocked something over and some stranger had witnessed it. She wasn’t looking for every detail of his life but the ones that managed to tie into her life, for whatever reasons, yeah those were important.

Valerie wasn’t attacking him, not physically, not verbally, but from the way Brian reacted it seemed as though she was. For that very reason she didn’t attempt to stop him from going. Whatever was going through his head he could work out on his own. Eggshells weren’t her prefered method of walking.

Right then it was safe to say that her intentions of calling tomorrow were slim. In fact, she didn’t say a word as he walked back a few steps, just turned around herself and walked off down the street. What was the point in participating when everything she said got a reaction like she was stabbing him.