Things had been working normally for everyone in the picture. Grim and Ellen, both, pushed those bothering feelings aside for a while to keep going with whatever they were doing. Ellen would enjoy the short conversations with Eugene every morning on her way to the library. Grim would drop her every evening back to her house after keeping an eye on her all day long. She also didn't have any problem with going with him since, after that day on the beach, grim didn't make any weird move on her.
It couldn't be said that things were going normal between them as nothing could go normal wherever grim was with his mocking comments, still, everything looked fine. And the day everyone had looked forward to finally arrived. The weekend.