The lights inside of our house suddenly turned off. I took that chance to get away from Reed. He came back to his senses too and moved a little bit far from me.
"I'm s-sorry," Reed said apologetically.
"Don't say sorry, Reed, because Alliyah wanted that too," Nicole said a bit teasing.
I silently mumbled a curse.
I cleared my throat and was meditating on what to tell Reed. Or maybe I should tell him to go home already?
"Brain for Alliyah, please!" Nicole shouted like she was disappointed or something. "Can you just grab this opportunity on asking him things? Especially those things we needed answers. Gosh, Alliyah!"
I sucked in a huge breath before facing Reed. I caught him staring at me. When he realized that I was looking at him, he then averted his gaze away from me.
"I... I just
