All A Big Misunderstanding.

'A simple complication, miscommunications lead to fallout'
--Taylor Swift, 'The Story of Us'

Humans might be equipped with vocabularies of hundreds or thousands of words, but somehow we manage a lot of communication failures on a regular basis. Usually we explain ourselves and get on with things.

This is why I am really, really sick of the 'it was all a big misunderstanding' plot. It's overused, it's contrived, and it makes your characters look like immature idiots.

I'm not arguing your characters should have flawless communication at all times. Far from it. But there's a difference between people actively struggling to convey information and failing and people who never try in the first place-- ie, the person who sees her love interest hugging a woman and assumes he's cheating, instead of asking who this person is, or the Wise Old Mentors who withhold major plot info for no good reason.

It's a lot more compelling to see characters who want to share information, and are foiled in their efforts by things like language barriers, cultural barriers, personal conflict, or supernatural interference, as opposed to characters who sit on info or fail to ask for it due to contrived or childish reasons.