"Are you..." Norbert attempted to utter a comment, only for the latter half of his sentence to turn out to be too silent for anyone to hear it.
So he took a moment, gulped down his saliva, and took a deep breath. And then, he opened up his mouth again.
"Are you fucking serious?!"
"Trust me, I wish it was only a stupid joke," Mathew admitted, hiding his face in his palm, too embarrassed to look at the others.
"What are we going to do now, then?" Nadia asked, getting over the shock of Mathew's revelation faster than anyone else in the group.
"You are just going to gloss over the fuck-up?" Norbert asked, clearly unhappy that such a massive failure could go away as if it never happened.
