The evening had gone exceptionally well between dinner and the general chit - chat with Casey . She was extremely overjoyed about knowing that she was soon going to be an aunt . The best thing about this evening was that it had taken my mind of a lot of things and had allowed me to just exist and be at ease with the people closest to me . It has also kind of made up got Ryder' s lack of conversation with me on the way here . Despite his mood on the way here , I caught him multiple times staring at me during conversation or even when we were on polar opposite sides of the same room . There were times were he would look away yet time he would just stare at me with an intensity that I could not understand . Nevertheless , all good things must come to an end and it was only inevitable that

