And with those few, simple words, it felt like the world started to crash down around me. The expression that I had witnessed moments ago, making so much more sense now—and I knew that if I looked at her now, she would be sporting the same horrified expression that I was, but I wasn’t going to do that.
I knew that if I looked at her and saw that she was looking at me the way that I was imagining her to, my own composure would crumble, and if the expressions of shock and disbelief on the faces of the other males in the room were anything to go by, I needed my composure, especially if I was expected to face them, and make small-talk with all of them.
My heart felt like it was going to burst out of my chest at any moment now, like a criminal making a run for it. The feeling was indescriba
