"Oh, don’t be shy,” she added, still smiling. “It’s normal for couples to shop together these days. Quite romantic, if you ask me."
Couples? We're far from being a couple.
My head whipped toward him, expecting a reaction. Perhaps even mild disgust, but he was completely unfazed. Calm. Like being mistaken for my boyfriend in a lingerie store didn’t faze him in the slightest.
And here I was melting into a puddle of secondhand embarrassment. Why did I even have to forget something as important as underwear?
"I can. I’ll just look around myself." I blurted, taking a few steps forward, but nearly collided with a mannequin dressed in lacy red lingerie. Just kill me now.
His voice came out calm and not helpful. "I’ll wait."
"You don’t have to," I said, but I shouldn't have looked back at h
