Chapter 16

• The first few moments of their hangout were extremely awkward and tiring for them both. Their breakfast passed by hurriedly, it was almost a blur in Lily's mind now that she thought about it, she barely remembers what she had for breakfast. They both barely said more than a few words to each other, and now they were seated in the car which despite its vastness felt suffocating to Lily because it was filled with nothing but silence and awkwardness.
• Clearing her throat. she decided to be the bigger person and put an end to the suffocating silence by striking up a conversation despite the fact that Asher looked like he couldn't care less about the awkwardness as he has been buried in his phone ever since their breakfast ended. "So..." she started, but Asher barely raised his head as he hummed in response. "Are you going to tell me where we are going?"
• Asher glanced at her for a split second with a frown etched on his face before he went back to tapping away on his phone. "I thought I already made our plans for the day clear, is your memory that weak? How are you going to handle the project you've been entrusted with if your ability to remember things is this weak?" Lily's eyes widened at his words, her lips fell open as she struggled to form a coherent sentence to respond to him with, but words and the ability to string them together seemed to have eluded her. Her mind searched desperately for what she could have done to have warranted such an outburst from him, but just as words eluded her, memories of what could have caused this also seemed out of reach.