It's okay to say that you're not fine if you're not.

[ hopefully she's okay with him coming into her space as he'll take a seat nearby but not exactly next to her. just from their interactions so far (and what he's observed), she's not someone who desires having people be too close to her without her "permission". ]

And I don't want to say that I'm used to this sort of thing but it's not as though I haven't seen things like this played out before.

[ ah. ]

Not one-for-one, exactly, of course.

[ just seeing the way a rug can be pulled right under you and the "creative" ways of which it can happen. ]