Originally Posted by Dances_With_Potter

"Mhmm." she said in reply to his thanks. The awkward tension began to build in the silence that followed, and that need inside Cadence to tell the truth and express her feelings began to overwhelm her desire to not make anything worse. Her face began growing really hot, and she could tell it was getting read. There was this tension in her chest and she began playing nervously with the ends of her hair. Finally, she said quietly, "Nate had just told me he loved me for the first time when Kat threw the pie." She didn't make eye contact, but she was no longer as upset about that fact of the incident as she had been when she and Nate had fought. She had accepted it and moved on and all that mattered was that Nate loved her, but her incessant need to tell the truth had overtaken her.