A faint part of her knew better than to think he was ignoring her - if he was, he would have continued instead of stopping. That was before she moved to try and force him to meet her eye, softening just a little and almost shy as she spoke quietly, "I wanna take you out to dinner. We... We need to talk, Sephiroth."

It was probably the hardest thing she'd ever done in her life, even harder than trying to survive snake poison or trying to free Ami from that human trafficking ring. Talking to her cousin had always been intimidating, but even more than what had happened on border patrol she felt even more pressured then. What would he even say?