Maia couldn’t describe how bad she felt. This was like the third time she had shrugged him off, or left him hanging like an i***t. She didn’t really mean to do it, it was just that her body’s energy evaporated and she grew so nervous and panicky around him. He wasn’t just good looking and smart, he was also filthy rich, for who could afford a car like his other than someone whose money grew on trees. Other than that, the suggestion to come inside had made her even more anxious. She would be absolutely ashamed to let him into her tiny, unruly apartment, with a roommate who had no dignity to take out something as simple as trash.
He wouldn’t belong there.
He would be a stranger.
And she would feel bad for him and herself.
Maia sighed dreamily for the hundredth time after she ha
