Rowena
“Did you see the look on Liam’s face when you beat his high score on that zombie shooter game? He was so flustered!”
Emma rolled her eyes good-naturedly. “Yeah, well, that’s what he gets when he assumes that girls don’t know how to play video games.” She paused for a moment before shooting me a sly grin. “You and Eric seemed to be having a pretty good time too, by the way.”
I felt my cheeks flush slightly at her implication, and quickly looked away to hide it. Last night, Emma, Eric, Liam, and I had gone out to a local arcade; we had spent the night playing games, eating pizza, and… well, just acting like normal people for a change.
It had been nice. But there was nothing more to it.
“Yeah,” I finally managed, rubbing my hand along the back of my neck. “It was nice to spend som
