The dreaded question coming from the one person she never wanted to hear from, was asked. For a second, she thought maybe this was a dream as well, but she knew it was reality. For her, there was no getting out of this one.
She couldn't suddenly leap into the future, to run away from the present. Right now, she had to face what was coming.
'This means, he does think me and Simon are together. So he did hear everything, Shirley was right after all.' Mai thought, however, a little spark of hope was seen. 'Wait a minute, why is Chris asking me if the two of us are together?
'Chris isn't the type of person to be nosy, and if he actually didn't care he wouldn't have asked in the first place, which means, he has to be asking for a reason, right? Does this mean, he likes me?' She started to think.
