Awakening - Rejected Mate
I have to stay steadfast with the plan.
“Sure, I’ll catch you guys later. I better go.” It’s a fast exit, saying it as I make a turn and head away, so I don’t get sidetracked with anymore conversation or unexpected invitations. Hoping not to get caught in another offer I can hardly refuse and I’m so busy looking back, smiling at them guiltily, that I don’t look where I’m going. I crash chest on into someone coming into the mess hall door, ‘ooofting’ with the sudden contact and wind myself lightly, bouncing, almost sending myself, and them, flying with the force of collision.