15 - Awkwardness

ERA’S POV

"Sir... are we dating right now?"

"Yeah. I'm doing it because I want to."

"Do you really like me?"

I'm well aware that my face is already too thick to say that to him. Let's just go ahead and do it this way. It's fine to engage in filthy behavior. That was a nickname I used to go by. Not everything can be learned solely within the four walls of your home. There is still a school and friends to keep you company.

I don't have any real friends.

“Yeah! From the time we were children, I have liked you."

"Perhaps it's just plain lust, Sir—"

“Mind you, Era. You are no longer a minor. We can get married now,” he pointed out to me the beer he was drinking. Tsk. He obviously likes the intestines.

"Getting married?! But I don't like you in the least. In addition, I had no idea whether or not we were childhood friends. How am I supposed to know if that is true?"

"Era, we have been engaged for a very long time. When you found out that we were moving because I was going to the United Sta