Penny didn't want Nemo to leave, but rather this new version of him formed in their months apart. She felt out of sync from him, like a wrench in their gears. Where she once knew how he would react to anything she had to say, she was now second guessing saying anything at all. If her apology made things worse between them, did that then mean her reaction in Paris was also what caused such a disfunction? Was there something else she was meant to say that would have saved them from this path?

Well, something aside from a foolish unrequited love declaration.

He was looking at her, she could feel it, but she didn't dare turn fully towards him again. She was too confused, too hurt, too tired to have anything of a productive conversation about what he actually meant by his outburst.

"I don't know what you want me to say," she confessed quietly. "In the boat all I could think of was how awful it was not speaking to you and how much I wanted to fix that, but clearly I shouldn't have said anything at all."