"Would you like to play a game with me and neither of us can stop in it?” Theodore asked seriously while drawing Ariana closer to him.

After being petrified for quite a while, Ariana snapped back to her senses and flung Theodore's hand away.

"I don't want to play some stupid game with you."

Then she hastily broke free from his arms and turned to leave.

Would it hurt him to say he loved her and he wanted to be with her? He had to say a bunch of nonsense and confuse her with words she couldn't understand at all.