Breaking the ice
"He clearly cares about you. He saved your life on the ice yesterday with those skates."
"Because right now, he's safe," Adrian said, looking up, his blue eyes filled with a deep, hidden pain. "He thinks we are close because we survived a storm together. He thinks I feel responsible for him. If I confess the truth if I tell him that I want him forever and he doesn't feel the same way? I ruin the one relationship that matters most to me. If I lose him as a partner, and I lose him as a friend, I have nothing left. I am terrified of breaking the only good thing in my life."