Like a Moth to a Flame(5)

10

Noah started asking me out a lot.

We went to movie theaters, aquariums, and amusement parks and took photos on the merry-go-round. We lined up behind a little girl in a pink princess dress for more than half an hour just to get ice cream.

I wanted to say no every time, but every time I saw his sparkling, expectant eyes, I couldn't bear to refuse him.

"Anyway, it's just an act. It's better to make it more real," I told myself.

...

It didn't take long for me to understand why Barrel said that that night.

Valenwich underwent a change of ownership and merged with another company. Barrel took over our big project with Valenwich and became one of the new people in charge from Party A.

Noah played a sweet boy and stayed with me. It was not until the morning of the training that he hurried out and met up with the others at school.

A few days earlier, Party A said they would send someone in charge to discuss the project face-to-face, so I stayed up for several days to come up with a