"Are you okay?" Nadia asked as she stepped into the shower where Mathew was busy trying not to lose his mind. And soon enough, the rest of the girls followed, all equally worried by Mathew's unusual behavior.
"I will be okay," Mathew said, remaining in the very same position that he was in for the last several minutes. With the hot drops of water constantly falling down his head and his eyes plastered to the floor.
"That's not exactly the answer to my question," Nadia replied, plastering herself over Mathew's back and placing her ear right above his heart.
For but a moment, she simply listened to Mathew's heartbeat, as if to try to guess his internal state from that one thing alone.
In a sense, it was a genius move. For how much Mathew could keep his face straight, it wasn't possible for him to alter the way his emotions influenced his heartbeat.
