"Sh.. shouldn't I be?" She stammered a little to respond.
Alexis could see his long eyelashes quiver a bit. How close were they standing right now?
As if to prove Alexis's doubt, he put all her scattered hair strands behind her ears carefully, clinking her long pink stoned earring. And this time, he wasn't staring at her eyes. It was her lips he was staring at. She felt a little ticklish. Both on her ears and lower belly.
It was hard to make sense of anything anymore. They were having a serious conversation and she was feeling anything but serious.
"Venessa and I are over. A long time ago. But we have nothing to do with each other anymore," he finally replied, carefully avoiding her question about whether she should be happy for them.
