"I was out. Dancing. Maybe drinking. And I lost track of the time and by the time I caught up, it was three AM and if I tried to go home like this right now and sneak into my own room, my mother is almost guaranteed to catch me and skin me alive. She has a sixth sense. It's kind of scary. So I asked Miri if I could hide out here and she said yes. I was going to sneak in her window since that seems easiest but it turns out it was your window and ... well, you know the rest."

The stammering, the falling, the tush. It all played itself out from there. She gives a bit of a shrug as she stops spewing her endless stream of words before giving him an awkward smile.

"Which I should probably go to. Miri's room, I mean."