Kapitel 404: First relationship: A story of deceit

Lexi watched him eat in silence. After his unnecessary attempt to humor her, he kept his silence so to prolong his death sentence. 

"What happened?" Seeing that he was almost done eating, Lexi's eyes were still glued on him as she examined his every facial movement. 

Clearing his throat, Ethan Lu hardly swallowed the food down before he took a mouthful of water to clear his esophagus. Raising his gaze to meet Lexi's pair of unreadable eyes, he breathed in and out. 

"Av— She and I— she's my first girlfriend. I actually don't know where to begin." Changing the pace of his tone, Ethan Lu mildly scratched his temple as he was having a hard time as to where he should begin. 

"Did you love her?" Slightly, Lexi nodded her head in acknowledgment before she asked the most important question—for her— that answer was already obvious.