The two were so close, her back almost pressing against his chest, even with the noise of the hairdryer working, she could still hear every word she shouted at James Black.
It was just that, seeing she was calling out in play, James Black pretended not to hear, therefore he didn't respond.
But if it hadn't been for James Black pretending not to hear, he thought, he probably wouldn't have heard Jane Sampson's next words.
Thinking he couldn't hear her, she asked a question she hadn't planned to get an answer for from him.
From that very first sentence outside the convenience store, "Can you not push me away so forcefully from now on?" to this question she quietly asked, they both gave James Black an inexplicable shiver in his heart.
This shudder, accompanied by piercing pain, was indescribable and irresistible.
It seemed like it would penetrate deep into his bones, never leaving.
