Chapter 16

Mary

Mary

We started discussing some details of our story while Pyotr was driving me home after our double date. We agreed to tell them that we have been together for seven months, got involved after a conference we went to together in Miami and have kept everything a secret ever since.

After getting all the simple stuff sorted out, we were missing the details that would make all the difference in whether people would believe our story or not.

We hit some traffic on the way around Central Park to my parents' house, which gave us some extra time to talk, but this subject was far from being finalized.

" Mary, it would be better if we could get this over with. We can't put it off any longer, I think this dinner was proof of that," he argued.

" We did well, they believed us.”

" Because they didn't pay attention and trust what you say," he retorted, "If they were suspicious, as many are, they would have found our behavior strange.”

" What do you want to do, go out for a drink? " I fina