"No apologies necessary," Lucy assured her. "My parents never learned sign language, so this is my most used method of communication."
She watched as Zoe frowned and glanced around. She looked around too but they were pretty much alone on the deck. She shrugged it off and wrote, "Thanks." She blushed a little at the compliment. "I just wish I could stop drawing him!" She bared down harder with the pen in her anger at herself...and at him for continuing to make her life miserable, even from a distance.