"I'm not that special," Alyssa replied. She didn't want to think of herself as being better than anyone. She was told plenty of times that she was nothing more than ordinary.
"I'm going to prove that you are," Elias told her in a confident tone. He drifted his hand away from hers.
"In all my years, I don't think I've met someone so stubborn when it came to admitting they're better than just normal."
"Isn't that narcissistic?" Alyssa smirked as she crossed her arms and rested them on the surface of the table in front of her.
"That's thinking you're better than everyone," Elias replied. "You're not narcissistic. You're not boring."
"You're really trying to boost my ego, aren't you?" Alyssa laughed a bit awkwardly. She wasn't used to this much kind attention.
He focused on her more than most people, more than her own parents.
"Just trying to make you realize that you're interesting too," Elias replied with a grin.
