"Where are we going?" Sophie asked Nicholas as they ran off. There was a look of disbelief on her face that the two of them easily left without a word.
"Anywhere else? It's just very suffocating being surrounded by everyone else with their plastered smiles," Nicholas said as he sighed for a moment.
Sophie blinked and then stopped in her tracks. "I would have thought that you'd make friends with them. You can get along with people easily and everyone already likes you too."
"Well, it's a pity for them that I do not want any of their affections," Nicholas shrugged. "Besides, they weren't looking at me as Nicholas. They were looking at me as the nephew of Lord Ferdinand."
"I see… it was terrible of me to assume that you actually liked them fawning over you like flies."
Nicholas chuckled. "Flies are a good description. But yes, compared to them, you on the other hand know how to treat me like an ordinary person. Like I'm actually normal for once. I'm grateful."
