"Because you're cute," she blurted out before realizing what she was saying. Her eyes widened after. What did she just do? The ears returned immediately, and she rushed to find some way of hiding them. She felt like such an idiot. Unable to find anything to help hide them, she brought her legs closer to her body and buried her head in her knees. She let her sketchbook fall to the ground, still opened to the drawing of Miguel. "Sorry!" she shouted, muffled by her legs yet still audible enough for the boy to hear, "I think I need to go."