"Fine, I won't dictate," she fired back at him. She pulled away from his hand as if she had been burned. Playful gestures she could deal with, but that felt a bit too real for her tastes. "But let me make a strong suggestion. Unless you and I get paired, and I can't begin to tell you the odds of that not happening, it wouldn't do for you to think of me as anything but a friend and colleague. I'm not trying to be mean right now, Ethan, I'm really not--but we're both going to end up paired sooner or later. Getting too attached to someone you aren't matched with is only going to end up hurting you in the end when you realize you can't be with them."