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Wonderstruck 
Adam could tell that Louisa was lying despite the nonchalant way in which she answered the question. Well he couldn't fault her for lying considering the fact that he too had chosen to lie to her about what was upsetting him that day near the lake when they buried their promises to one another. After all it would be a bit too much calling the kettle black for Adam to push the matter, so he decided to just give her a little nod.
He kept in his same position as Louisa hoisted herself so that she was sitting on the table. Was that why he was upset because she became so flustered? Although Adam couldn't quite put his finger on it he had a feeling the way he went about answering this question was probably going to have a significant impact. "Well...yeah," Adam said with a small shrug of the shoulders. "This is supposed to be fun, and I certainly don't want to upset you by doing all of this," Adam said with a wave of the hand. Err...he meant the boxing but given the somewhat obvious undertone Adam wondered if that was going to be taken the wrong way. "I mean...I'm just...we don't have to do martial arts if it upsets you or anything," Adam finally concluded, frazzled that he was stumbling over his words this much. Where had his composure in tough situations gone?
Louisa's mouth twitched before drawing a crooked smile, "
You didn't upset me." It was amusing to study his reactions to her awkwardness. He didn't even know why she became so flustered and she was grateful for that. Louisa didn't want him to know or even sense her TEMPORARY attraction. The girl didn't even know if it was temporary or not and she certainly didn't know whether it was right to admit it to him yet or not... even jokingly, she wouldn't tell.
Taking a bottle from beside her Louisa shook her head gently, "
It doesn't upset me, not really. I guess I'm not feeling that well today for.." COUGHclosenessCOUGH. "
..doing it. You did teach me the basics of punching though!" She smiled widely at him, picking up her enthusiastic tone quickly, "
I'm sure I can punch whoever tries to form himself as a threat." Chuckling at her own wording, she jumped off the table. "
Ready to leave, sir?" She linked her arm into his and directed him toward the door.
Now THAT kind of closeness was not intimidating at all. She had no idea why or what was so different from before but she didn't get the shucks while they walked arm by arm.