Kelsi was holding her breath with her hand suspended in midair, about to knock at Aki’s bedroom door, but then she chickened out and let her hand drop to the side.
After they had arrived home from the failed driving lessons, Kelsi had immediately gone to her room and shut the door behind her without saying a word to Aki, and she didn’t come out until now.
It wasn’t because she was still upset at him. Her frustrations from earlier had mellowed out during the drive back home, and as they did, her head began to clear up and she was able to think more rationally. She realized she was being unfair to him.
She had shown him her ugly behavior, and that’s why she escaped to her room in order to hide. Hide out of shame. That was a side of her that she didn’t want him to see. She was afraid he wo
