Motivated by love
He placed the pizza near his mouth and swallowed a large piece in one bite. But there was nothing extraordinary with what he did. Dani kept waiting for the next act, but nothing followed. He only continued to munch on the remaining portion.
"Where is the trick?" She asked, perplexed with his dramatics.
She had been waiting for the spectacular show, but nothing happened. She stared at Alex as he licked his fingers off the juices that remained on it.
"That is the trick. I made you stop eating as you kept watching me eat." He replied to her query, then he grabbed another sliced and did the same thing to it.
"You and your stupid tricks." She punched him lightly on the arm before she continued to eat what remained of her pizza in her hand.
But she was indeed fooled again to believe that he was about to perform a trick. She was thinking something like eating the entire piece in one mouthful. She had seen it done in some movies by comedians.