"To.... wait and see," she said after a moment. How to explain? She had thought a return to friendship best, but upon examining the circumstances had been dismayed to discover that she saw no easy path there. It was the exception or nothing, and nothing was just so... final.
"It will not be the first exception I've made in my life - if the first to that particular rule." She doubted he even realized she had granted him one some time ago. Two and a half years on and off - mostly on - wasn't something she had ever intended for her life, either. "Perhaps it will turn out as well as the last."