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“Aren't you cold?” Aurora asked suddenly, and at first, I thought she was talking to me, but it was soon clear that she was referring to him.
“I'm fine,” he replied, however, I was already taking off his jacket. I froze then in mid-movement, wondering if I had made another mistake. However, he reached out for it, and I handed it over.
“Is that his jacket?” she asked, and I nodded, unable to meet anyone’s eyes. Instead, I stared out at the panoramic view of the city from this vantage point, even though it was now impossible for me to appreciate or even take it in.
“Yeah,” I heard him reply.
“So cute,” she commented, surprising me. “It's like you two are a couple.”
No one responded. However, she kept pushing.
“Are you two a couple?” she asked, truly and as I turned to her, I was shocked by how direct she was. I mean, I had thought she would have wanted to bring it up when we were alone, but she had asked right there without any reservations.
I immediately replied as defensively as I could possibly be.
“We’re not,” I replied. “Not at all. He just thought that I would be cold and offered it to me briefly. I'm sorry for forgetting to return it.”
She smiled at me almost sympathetically, and then she turned to him. He had his eyes on her at first, and then he turned his attention to me.
“Sure you don't still need it?” he asked, and I shook my head.
A long silence followed afterward, but then Aurora, God bless her little evil heart, struck again.
“Are you two sleeping together then?” she asked, and this time around both my eyes widened in shock, as well as her fiancé’s.
“Sorry!” he called out; however, she was completely amused.
“You all are acting so stiff, as though I’m going to blow up.”
“That's rude,” he said, but she shook her head.
“No, it's not. What it is is obvious. Evelyn, is this what Victoria was babbling about in my room earlier and trying to say?”
At her words, I immediately turned to Drake's face and saw it darken. I automatically wanted to come to Victoria’s defense, but when I realized that she got whatever would be coming to her as a result, I stopped myself.
“Kind of,” I replied. “I wanted to bring it up but privately.”
“Ah,” she said, still smiling. However, I couldn’t quite tell how she truly felt about it.
“What was so obvious about it?” Drake asked, and I grew even more nervous. I mean, sure, it was good he was trying to find out so that he would tone down whatever had given us away for the sake of the rest of the ceremony. But it was also extremely uncomfortable.
Plus, I felt truly like I couldn’t read anybody, and it made me feel quite vulnerable. Like absolutely nothing was in my control, including Drake’s reaction.
“Well, for starters, you gave her your jacket,” she said.
“I've seen the way you are with other women, and I've never seen you be that considerate before. Plus, of course, now that as soon as I became suspicious, then all the looks you kept sneaking at her at dinner suddenly made sense. I was so nervous because I thought you didn't like her, that you didn't think she was needed at all. Who would have thought it was because you were interested in her?”
I turned away then, my entire body flushing because now Aurora was just saying too much. Her words were nice, but she was going too far. We were just involved, yet she was insinuating more than I wanted at such close proximity to him where I could barely hide anything. We both went quiet then, and I turned to look out of the window.
Her reaction truly was surprising to me, but perhaps she didn't want to sulk about it or be unpleasant, given that we were all in such close proximity to each other.
Soon, though, and thankfully, we landed on a field close to the tracks, and I was so incredibly relieved.
I tried my very best to look away from Drake, but truly, it was difficult to. Especially since he decided that there was no need whatsoever for him to put on his jacket. He was all muscle as he ushered us over to the places where the motorcycles were kept greeting the staff there.
They welcomed him happily, and I watched him, from then onwards, completely forgetting that another person was in existence.
He spoke to them about the motorcycles as well as Aurora's fiancé, while I brought out my camera and started taking pictures. Eventually, I joined Aurora on the bleachers, and she seemed to be more relaxed than ever before. She stared at me then with a smile, and I truly hoped that since we were now alone, she wouldn’t try to tell me how she truly felt about it.
