Seeing Lily standing before me got me so tongue tied and I felt my whole body so jittery that I couldn't move neither further nor backwards.

"Ehem!" She cleared her throat to get my attention after what seemed like forever of silence and a bit of awkwardness that hovered around us.

I stared at her for a while.

"So?" She started off letting her body lean gently on the door handle.

"Oh, come in…" She said and started to head in while she left the door ajar for me to ...