Aria
“What?” I asked, still trying to catch up with what I was hearing.
“Well, you do look amazing,” he said, that familiar smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. “And I knew you’d forget.”
“What?” I asked again, my voice smaller this time. “You… you know me?”
He chuckled softly. “I’m supposed to not know you?”
“But the doctor said…” My words broke apart. Tears burned at the corners of my eyes, blurring his face.
“Right,” he said, a little sheepish now. “I just wanted to scare you. But then you started avoiding me, and judging by how you were trying to run out of the room just now, I think it worked. When I woke up, I realized the next day was your birthday and—” He shrugged. “I needed to stall a bit. I’m sorry.”
Relief flooded through me so fast it made me dizzy. The tension th
