"Yeah?" she asks, taking another sip of the coffee and then turning herself to sit sideways, her knee bent, shin pressed along the outside of Steve's thigh. "What is it?"

She worries, for a moment, he might be about to tell her she's spending too much time at school. Some guys wouldn't like the dedication she has to her education, she knows that, but as soon as she thinks it, she dismisses it. Steve isn't like that, he's never done anything but support her.

It has to be something else.