Chapter 20 Friends (1)

• After dinner, Max invited her to walk around the outdoor shopping area that surrounded the ‘V.’ There were little gift shops, cafes, ice cream parlors, and restaurants that littered the area to entice people to relax and go shopping.
• The food they ate didn’t really satisfy their hunger, so they stopped at a cafe to have some cake and coffee for him, and a milkshake for her. The atmosphere at the cafe was more relaxed, probably due to the fact that it was a more open environment, and there was less expectation to act more sophisticated and classy because the cafe was more casual. Which lightened the mood a bit until Max started running his hand up and down her arm while they were talking about mundane stuff.
• She was so aware of how his thumb was lazily caressing her arm, giving her goosebumps, and the nerve endings from her arm were just igniting the sensitive areas in her body that had no business getting awakened. Max’s voice was mesmerizing her, and his smile was just luring her to lean closer and… What? What is wrong with her? How many years has it been since she had been intimate with someone?