Khloe Can you be my girlfriend? What he just asked lingered in my head. I was trying to process it. Have I even heard him right? Maybe, I was just over thinking that any thoughts just came to mind. Maybe, he meant other things. What things? I frowned. I was pretty sure I heard him right. "Pardon. C-can you ask or say it again?" He chuckled. "Can you be my girlfriend?" And that was it. It was real. He was real. I was real. We are in the real world. I wasn't imagining things. He confirmed it. He asked me again and I was sure I heard him right. His voice. The way he asked me that. He was so serious and straight to the point. He didn't add any flowery words at all. Maybe, he wanted a direct-to-the-point answer to that. And my answer was, "I can." "There's a 'but' coming. I just feel

