Whatever Steph had expected him to say, it wasn't what he really said. She had been watching him as he approached, wondering why he was talking to her. Something was off. No one talked to a stranger like that, especially when he said that there was something she deserved to know, whatever that meant.
He didn't seem like he wanted to attack her or anything and Steph mentally chastened herself for thinking that a schoolmate would even think of something like that. She had obviously been spending too much time out on the streets and it was getting to her. That was what she was thinking when he brought up Edward Nigma. Steph's eyes narrowed and before he could finish, she was already talking.
"You what? You talk to the Riddler? Oh my god--" she was saying before she understood him. Before something clicked and without another word, her clenched fist flew towards his jaw in a mean right hook.
Steph was strangely silent and after a few moments, she finally spoke again. "YOU BASTARD!" she hissed and ran to get her things. She didn't feel like running anymore.