The awkwardness between Stephen and me felt heavy, mixed with strange intimacy as if we've known each other for a long time. Our eyes were locked, a moment that seemed to last forever, until a man showed up out of nowhere. He had medium-long, light-colored hair, and his sudden appearance broke our silly moment.
"This is not the time to be intimate!" he berated us.
Stephen immediately pulled his hand away. "We're not being intimate! I meant stay with her friends!"
The man smirked. "Yeah, right. As if you weren't about to—"
"Get lost, freak!" Stephen hissed. The man shrugged and walked away, and I couldn't help but laugh.
"You could have been nicer," I teased.
"Nah, I've known him since birth. That's Dashfrey Vale, a royal from the Eclipse kingdom." He replied, nonchalantly.
"Oh, so you're friends?"
