Seven

It was really hard for me to keep this smile on my lips. I felt so frustrated and angry, but well, I just had to keep pretending to be fine with this craziness. 

"Is she your girlfriend?" The oldie in front of us asked Ryan that question. 

Ryan and I glimpsed at each other, and he laughed weirdly. "Oh, yeah. She is. We only began dating recently." 

He had his arm wrapped around my waist, my hip locked to his body. The moment he called me his "girlfriend", I curled my arm around his waist as well, pinched him from behind. He flinched a little, his jaw clenched. If this cost my job, then so be it! Why would he tell such a lie?

His girlfriend? Yuck!

"You're such a beautiful couple," the old man remarked, grinning so hard to the extent I could spot his missing canine tooth. "Hopefully, my son will have a pretty woman like you someday."

I feigned a