YOU ARE JUST IN DENIAL!

Ruth was at Thea's home with the red velvet box of the earrings placed between them.

"Ruth you are not going to achieve anything with this silence. You have to think fast because in few hours, you will need to be there wearing these earrings to hear his answer." Thea said after ten minutes of silence.

Ruth shook her head in distress.

"Thea, you are not getting it. There are... there are hundreds of things running on my mind. I can not decide this in a minute. I am still trying to wrap up my head around what he has done and what he is expecting me to do." Ruth said while rubbing the corner of her head.

"Then let's address those hundreds of things one by one." Thea suggested.

Ruth nodded, although she was not sure how many things she could discuss with Thea. Her plan of revenge was definitely not one of them.

"Does this... this means... he... he l-likes me?" Asking that sounded very weird to Ruth at the same time, it made her tingle at places.