“Does it sound like a lie to you that I came because I missed you?”
“That’s something you said so my great-aunt wouldn’t get suspicious.”
“Then were you trying to deceive someone when you muttered that you missed me in your sleep?”
“What? Talking in my sleep? …I did?”
The moment she asked, Harriet remembered herself giggling and mumbling half-asleep.
“Aaaah!”
Mortified, she slapped both sides of her head with her hands and stomped her feet. The sight was so unexpected that Cedric burst out laughing.
“Pfft! Hahaha!”
“What do I do, what do I do?!”
“Hahahaha!”
Their laughter echoed through the night garden, then slowly faded.
“Honestly, you’re completely unpredictable.”
“That’s rich coming from you. No, seriously. You’re unbelievably busy, yet you sat around here for hours just because you missed me. Isn’t that strange?”
“I’ve been holding back this whole time, but today I really couldn’t. So I…
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