She grabs him by the shoulders and continues smiling at him, but Marco doesn’t show even a hint of a reaction. Instead, he stares off into space with an empty look in his eyes.
“Marco?” she asks, “Are you okay?”
“Meranda,” Heiko comes to stand at her side and says, “there’s something that I need to tell you.”
This time, Meranda responds with a biting remark, “This doesn’t involve you. I don’t know why you think you can interrupt a private conversation, as if it has something to do with you. Could you maybe leave us alone for a few minutes?”
“Okay,” Heiko says with a grin, “let me help you figure this out then.”
Heiko begins scrolling through the menu on his tablet and then speaks into it; in turn, Marco suddenly springs to life and says, “Hello, Meranda. As it turns out, I’ve decided
