"FIRST HOLDING HANDS"

I can say that there is a big difference in that dinner compared to what Marius and I did last night. Maybe it's because we are officially friends now.

"Are you okay?" Marius asked me when he noticed I had finished eating.

I nodded and took a sip of water from my glass. "Yeah, I'm so full," I said truthfully, followed by a soft laugh.

I saw Marius's dark eyes sparkle as he continued to gaze at me. In them, I could sense the admiration that he had never really hidden from me since the beginning.

"Do you want to go home now?" he asked as we walked towards his parked car.

I shrugged quickly before speaking. "It's fine with me if you want to take a walk in the park first," I said.

The park wasn't far from where we were, and we could see a few people walking there. Most of them were couples.

Marius stopped walking and faced me. "Are you sure?" he asked, his face brightening with a happy expression, his thick and beautiful eyebrows raised.

"Yeah. It's just a stress reliever," I repli