At his answer, she raised an eyebrow skeptically. Tobias was evidently uninterested in the entire affair.

 

They remained in their seats until the janitor looked at them meaningfully, prompting them to leave. Skylar hurriedly followed Tobias out of the cinema.

 
 

She held out her hand, but the man adamantly refused to take it. Inwardly, she marveled at Tobias’ audacity. Throughout the film, he’d copped multiple feels in the darkness of the cinema. However, he’d returned to his callous self right after the lights came on.

Can’t he even hold my hand? Skylar agonized.

At the exit, they ran into the pair that had been blissfully announcing their plans to the entire cinema. The girl was now squatting in a corner earnestly convincing her mother, saying, “Mom, I’m going to stay over at my classmate’s house for the next two days. I won’t be coming home.”

 

Skylar felt a grudging sense of admiration for this young girl’s dedication to her relationship. Not only did they have to last the night at a cybercafe, but they would also have to drag their wearied bodies, stained with the smell of beer and cigarettes, to a cheap hotel at the crack of dawn. The thought of the journey they would have to undertake was fatiguing enough.

 

Ruefully, she supposed that the happiness the young couple got out of being together would be worth all that toil.

“Why are you always staring at other people? Are you envious of them? She’s got a boy toy to spend the

 

of her head, “Well, is mine willing to spend the

froze, wrinkling his handsome

referred to him so dismissively, but rather that he was indeed unable

them. Tobias instinctively drew Skylar into his warm

herself to be taken in that easily. After all, the year had only just begun. Who knows if I’ll

mind flashed back to the food she’d been preparing halfway that had since been left to grow cold. Unwilling to let it go

had work left unfinished. The two of them thus agreed

his arms, hoisting her up into the air before setting her down on the top of a low dresser. He then

mind? I was afraid that if I didn’t do something tonight, you’d be wondering if I was having somebody else on the side

evidently taken Skylar’s look of unhappiness throughout the

wreathed her arms tightly around Tobias as he

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