Re: Dining room interaction.
The drink was loosening Ellie's tongue at perhaps the worst possible time. "That thing you do, where you wink at them and they wink back, and then later you do stuff with them, and you don't even know them. And you know all you have to do is the wink, or the eyebrow waggles, because they'll come running because boys are stupid and you are beautiful."
Tears came to her eyes but she blinked them away. Jules had put effort into her make up and she wasn't going to ruin it for a little tantrum. "I just want you to... see me. Is it that you think those boys will make you happy? None of them cares about you even a fraction as much as I do, and you don't even notice."