Melanie’s POV
I frowned in confusion. Orange was becoming listless on my lap so I let go of him and he was all too happy to jump away.
“What do you mean by shade of gray?” I asked.
"This girl, the hypothetical one, seems to be the kind of person that sees life in black and white while the boy lives in the gray area," she said.
“Is that a bad thing?” I asked.
"Not necessarily. Like I said earlier, it depends on the shade of gray," she replied. "I've lived on this earth long enough to know there is more to this world than just good or evil and most times, we need the gray area. The gray area allows us to make mistakes, and realize and recover from those mistakes. Some people survive in the gray area and there's nothing wrong with that."
“So when does it become a problem?”
“It becomes
