El POV
Despite that she was out of the gated community for the night, it was a long night of trying to remind Marlo she didn’t want a boyfriend. She’d reminded him gently and tried to be nice about it, but then had snapped at him once. Apologised afterwards but had insulted him with her tone and she knew it.
It did not help that they were out with his friends who were all in relationships, and that left her and Marlo to sit together, and to be alone as the others all wandered off or got up and danced together. Eliza also noticed that they had spaced themselves out, away from the two of them. She had no idea if this was planned by him or just what they would normally do. Didn’t know them that well to even hesitate a guess at the answer, and there was a lot of making out going on with his
