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I think there are certain factors to consider:
1. at that time the protagonist was a bit more portly compared to his fitter self in the present.
2. Aine will have assumed that someone she treated like that back then would have rather slammed the door in her face.
3. she would have been reluctant to remember that time, firstly because her relationship with her mother was even worse than it is now, and secondly because of a very simple thing: shame. There wasn't really anything she could have done about it, which doesn't change the fact that she is aware that she had to give someone, whose presence she actually liked, a hard time.
And yes, at that time it won't have been real feelings that Aine had for the protagonist, but I would definitely say that there was potential there. Just the way he regularly drove her up the wall and tore down her facade gave her virtually no opportunity not to be her real self. That he was later the latest target in her mother's game nipped the whole thing in the bud, of course, but ensured that Aine developed real feelings of guilt here, since he was the first guy who really liked her and not just because she was attractive and came from an influential family.
1. at that time the protagonist was a bit more portly compared to his fitter self in the present.
2. Aine will have assumed that someone she treated like that back then would have rather slammed the door in her face.
3. she would have been reluctant to remember that time, firstly because her relationship with her mother was even worse than it is now, and secondly because of a very simple thing: shame. There wasn't really anything she could have done about it, which doesn't change the fact that she is aware that she had to give someone, whose presence she actually liked, a hard time.
And yes, at that time it won't have been real feelings that Aine had for the protagonist, but I would definitely say that there was potential there. Just the way he regularly drove her up the wall and tore down her facade gave her virtually no opportunity not to be her real self. That he was later the latest target in her mother's game nipped the whole thing in the bud, of course, but ensured that Aine developed real feelings of guilt here, since he was the first guy who really liked her and not just because she was attractive and came from an influential family.
