CLXXIII

The ice melted on her tongue before she decided to read time to get into the room and call it a night. She glanced at the clock. It was just a few seconds past midnight and she felt the urge to go to bed.

"Let's go to bed" she announced like a judge giving a verdict.

"Together?" he asked with a slyish smile dancing on his lips.

"Yeah," she trailed off when her mind finally comprehended what he was trying to say.

"Not together but together," she said. She played back her words in her mind and discovered how stupid she sounded.

"What I mean is let's leave this place together and go to bed separately in our beds" she clarified. Her voice was quick and sharp as if she was begging for relief from any form of torment.

"Stop looking at me like that" she murmured her head down. She wondered how he had quickly turned the table so fast when she had been the one with the most power over him just a few seconds ago.

"Like how?" he wanted to feign ignorance. He watched her eyes go up in surpris