She kissed back, touching his face softly. "I love you too, Alex. And I want to be with you."
She wanted it to work. More than anything else in the world. Even if things were now, thanks to her big mouth, worse than they'd been when the day had started. Whether he would admit it or not, she'd hurt him, and she didn't even really understand how. Winning back trust that's lost is a lot harder than earning it in the first place, and what if she wasn't good enough for that? What if she'd ruined things?
The second guessing was getting annoying. She willed those thoughts away. Things would work, or they wouldn't. All she could do was try her hardest to make it turn out right in the end.