"I'm sorry."
"No need to apologize. My younger sister is the same." he gave her a kind smile. The kind that an older brother gives to a sister.
Jess stared at Oliver feeling warm. She never had an older brother, and this feeling is unfamiliar to her. She is the firstborn of her wild father.
"Thank you." she felt grateful that Oliver understood. Most people thought she is being a snob and rude whenever she can't react quickly when they approached her. It's difficult to explain to them that she simply couldn't remember people's names!
Thus, it feels nice that for the first time someone understands her and didn't make a big deal of her forgetting their names.
She was so grateful that she insisted to buy him a meal. They ended up in a small Mexican family restaurant ten minutes drive away from the university.
Lunchtime was already finished, so there were just a few people in the restaurant. The place was a good place to talk. They had enough privacy while enjoying good food.
