Chapter fourteen - Progressing in Steps

"What do you mean you don't know if it's serious?" Asher asked over the video screen, the image freezing for a moment when his face was close to the screen.

"I mean exactly that!" Amara said just as emphatically.

"You've been going out for months," he began listing. "You've had arguments and at least one big fight that you both came back from—

"One actual fight—"

You're both working and still managing to find time for each other on a weekly basis," he continued. "You've been to his work—"

"Once."

"I'm sure he'd take you again if you asked," Asher said, undeterred. "And, you both are normalizing."

"What? No we're not."

"It's becoming normal to see each other more than not, isn't it?"

"Maybe. Doesn't mean it happens more," she said petulantly.

"Doesn't mean you don't want it to," he argued back.

"Relationships work like that!"

"Yeah, but you're also not super bummed and bothering him all the time when you don't get to see him!"

"Because I know he has a life!" she argued back. "He works