The look on Dia's face grows steadily more mortified as Mari goes on, and by the end of it she teeters dangerously close to real, actual distress.

"None of that!" she admonishes, more frantic than stern. "We won't be--" her voice drops to a whisper for the next word-- "kissing, anywhere on school grounds, and certainly not in the director's office! This was a one-time thing, all right? An anomaly! A fluke!"