"I wondered," she nodded. She hadn't paid much attention to the rumor mill lately, despite the fact that it could be good to know that they weren't saying the type of things about her that she suspected. She didn't have it in her, though.
"I went to the dance with him last year, that's how everything got started," she wasn't about to go into full detail, but she felt that bit was prevalent to the subject. She groaned, burying her face in her hands. "I said so much in there. Sure, it wasn't all clear, and it was mostly me rummaging through my thoughts, but I really had hoped no one had seen it."