Aleyna felt self-conscious standing alone on the dance floor, she felt stark naked with everyone staring at her. She looked at Mark walking through the crowd out the restaurant and the following events of the night were hazy. She remembered David coming up to her followed by Defne and Adam. She was stunned into speechlessness. They had a spirited discussion and she couldn’t recall how she reached home cause all that was whirring in her head were Mark’s last words. Surely he didn’t mean what she thought he did. Was it over before anything had even started between them? Her stomach was in a tight knot and she felt terrible. He had lied to her and she made it extremely apparent how much she detested it. He could’ve apologized to me, she reasoned with herself, not that he didn’t, her mind an

