Why would he like her? She was an ugly, fat duckling. No one would like her.
She was just fooling her or playing with her own ears. She didn't want to believe it because she knew it was not true.
Alex was just kidding, or perhaps she just misheard it. Right! She just heard wrong.
Bariana breathed a sigh of relief when Sophia rushed into the office.
"Chef! Rowan and his flirty girl are outside. They're going to eat," Sophia said.
She suddenly felt worse. What was that again? She didn't want trouble. Why was that jerk Rowan doing this to her? She didn't do anything wrong here!
When Sophia came out, she hit her head. "What is Rowan planning again? Argh! Is he really not going to ignore me?"
She was stopped by someone holding her hand. When she looked up, her eyes met Alex's.
She couldn't stop asking. "What?"
"Let's go out," he suggested. "And show them that you are not affected. That's the only way to make them go away."