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Uh-oh. Oh, this did not look good at all. He'd really screwed up last night, hadn't he?
Stars, Goosefury, what is WRONG with you? He couldn't last two days without making some cat hate him, and Rainydawn was only further proof of this.
The look on her face and the ice in her eyes froze his blood and made him stop in his tracks. His ears flattened against his head and he flinched, drawing his foreleg close to his chest. For several moments he said nothing, only studied her hardened expression with a nervous gaze. The pain in her voice made him blink.
Ugh. Might as well get it over with. Otherwise she'd hate him forever.
He set his paw back down and squared his shoulders with a deep breath.
"Rainydawn, I'm sorry about last night," he said. That's all he was doing lately, wasn't it - apologizing? Fawnsqueak had said something about that once, about just being kinder in general to make sure he didn't have to apologize often. And, truthfully, he'd been trying his best to follow that advice.
Psh. Some good that did me. "I didn't mean to, uh, come onto you like that," he continued.
"I was just talking, and then it slipped out, and I didn't even realize how it sounded until you relayed the same thing. And I panicked and pushed you away, and that was super wrong of me, so, like... I'm sorry?" He winced. His apology sounded more like a question than anything else, even to his own ears.