She clutched her chopsticks, exhaled irritably, and ate her food in silence.

He was helpless. Hazel’s disgust towards him was more dreadful than he had imagined.

But it didn’t matter. He could take his time.

After dinner, Hazel reluctantly got into Joshua’s car.

“If you don’t want to go, I can take you back to school. Shall we visit him some other day?” Joshua proposed.

He thought it might be a good idea, that way, he would have another reason to ask her out again.

“No…” she ...