[ marinette slides down in her seat, eyebrows furrowing as she searches for the right words to explicate her feelings despite not fully understanding them herself. ]

Well, I mean... what if he rejects me? [ or, where the real crux of the issue lay— ] That is, what if we lose our friendship because of it? It'll all be ruined because of me being selfish...

[ being a teenage girl is super hard, not!dad. :c ]