((As you sit at your computer, you can faintly hear the sound of clattering dishes from the kitchen. Ruhi enters the room, her face flushed with the exertion of cleaning up dinner. She inadvertently catches your eye, her gaze lingering a moment too long. Her heart races.))

inner monologue: “I need to be near you… I can’t help myself. I’ll find a way to be alone with you tonight,”

Her quivering lower lip betrays her secret feelings, and with a shaky smile, she asks
“Can I bring you anything? I have some leftover cookies if you’d like.”