She takes the flowers I'm still holding out of my hand and pulls me hard by the waist. — I've already given up understanding what you're doing to me, girl. Just have dinner with me, okay? I nod and he pulls out a chair for me to sit down. Thomas pours wine from the bottle on ice and sits down next to me. I can't stop looking at him with a goofy smile on my face, and he keeps looking at me like he doesn't know what to do, until he looks away. — I have something for you — he says and takes a small box from inside his jacket pocket. — Graduation present. He hands me the box and looks at me carefully as I open it. I gasp when I see what's inside. I was expecting a gem or something, but there's only one card. I pick up the piece of paper with trembling fingers and my eyes water as I read it

