After setting her bag properly aside, she turns to me with a seemingly composed posture already. Lara sends me an expecting smile. “ So how did it go?” I stare at her, confused. “What?” She rolls her eyes to the side. “ I mean your date with Mark.” Date with Mark? How can she something so ridiculous with that face? It’s making me feel all kinds of things now that I don’t even want to feel. She’s making me hope it really was a date at this point. Holy moly. Heart accelerating, I can’t stop the crimson from spiraling around my cheeks. The room’s getting hotter only because Lara’s engraving the idea that what Mark and I experience was was a date. Lara finds amusement to my reaction. Im not enjoying this one bit. She’s gonna end up teasing me right? “W-what do you mean a date? That was

