I scratch my wrist, make it look absent-minded—except it isn’t—it’s called a manipulator. And I’m not being manipulative to him doing this; I’m humanizing myself. I’m doing an action that would imply to him I feel nervous, and I want him to think I’m nervous because he’ll find it a bit disarming, and I want him to stay attracted to me and sometimes men are weird about power dynamics like that.
