Chapter 64

Ariana's POV

As I made my statement, if I expected Henry to be shocked, then I too was met with a surprise of my own. He wasn't surprised even one bit. No shock showed on his face like I thought it would. If so, then ever since I had started speaking earlier on, he had prepared himself for something like this. Maybe that was the reason he wasn't surprised by my speech at all and his next words told me as much.

"By your reaction toward my own reaction, I know that you were expecting me to act shocked toward your pronunciation but I am not at all surprised by it. When you started talking, I already knew that you would choose Claire over me. And why wouldn't you? She is your friend and as for me, I'm just someone who is trying to be your friend. So I did the math and figured it out easily. If you don't know, I am rather good at math."

"Well," I started. "I rather expected you to feel hurt or betrayed in some way but what I didn't expect was for you to take it calmly as you have done. Wh