Chapter 8: Happy Birthday

“ Nicholas, have you ever been in love?” Mauve’s heartbeat could almost pop out of her ear. She badly wants to know but refuses to hear it come out of his mouth. Still, she kept her eyes on his even if she looks like a ripe tomato ready to burst.

“ I haven’t … but I might.” Nicholas looks at Mauve who looks like she was relieved off of a heavy frustration. 

“How about you have you ever been in love?” he asks in return. As Mauve is about to respond, Sephie enters the room and asks how things were going. The tension between the two dissipates while they relay the plan to Sephie.

It took them the whole afternoon and evening to patch through any loopholes they thought of in order to make the plan as easy as possible. As