Forty-Eight: Night Out

AXEL

We drove back to school in silence.

The Question and Answer session was already over when we returned to the venue so we just slipped into the car and drove away.

Nobody said anything during the drive and just like I was thinking, I was sure Lisa was thinking about the same thing, about the vulnerabilities that we both shared with each other back on the field.

We both knew we crossed a line we shouldn't cross, a line that'll blur the dynamics of our relationship but I just wanted to strike a balance, she had blurted her vulnerability out in a moment of weakness, and knowing Lisa and what she thinks of me, I was she'd always have a nagging thought at the time back of her mind that I was going to use that piece of information against her.

I wasn't an unfeeling monster so there was no way I’d use that against her but she wasn't going to believe me so I had to make it a truce.

I had to tell her something about me that I'd never told anyone. I've never shared a relationship with an