When he took a step forward, Michelle reacted by taking one back, her heart now in her throat. Her lying had improved this past year - quite a bit, actually - but only when they were rehearsed, which this hadn't been. Her first thought was that she wanted to take him up on it, to stop running for just a few days. Her second was that she had no idea who she could trust.
"Right, because someone who gets caught by an underage muggleborn is going to be able to do something to help me," she said, voice breaking a bit.