Ruth is stunned for longer than she'd have liked. She doesn't immediately process it when Betty pulls away, though her eyes eventually fall to the hand that leaves her jaw, gaze moving back up to Betty's face when she speaks up. There's a sharp little inhale there, when her brain suddenly remembers that she needs to breathe, and she blinks, shakes her head in an instinctive response to Betty's questions.

"No No, I... you didn't misread. I just," she pauses and clears her throat a little, her lips stretching into a smile even as she feels her stomach doing about ten backflips, her heart sitting at the back of her throat. "I didn't know. I thought— thought it was just me?"