Lyra's POV.
Performance because I just wanted to be on people's good site because not something that I was really good at but at this point there was nothing I could do besides just keep moving on and pretending like everything was going the right way so that I could erase myself out of this depth of the pains that I have been feeling.
Rejection was never good on anybody and no matter how they wanted to prove to themselves that they did not mind I could always see through them and realize that there was a whole lot more to the story than they were willing to tell.
It was as simple as that no matter how anybody wanted to push for nonchalance I could see that it was not an easy thing for them to get over with and I tried to sympathize with them as much as I could.
In this case it was
