Deliberation

EVANGELINE

Talk about us. The very talk that I thought I was going to run away from. I swallowed hard, feeling the lump rising in my throat, and faced him, hoping my face wasn't as red as I imagined it to be.

Axel's hands were tucked in his pockets, and he leaned against the wall, waiting for me to say something. I hugged my arms nervously, looking at everything else but his face before I began to feel everything I wasn't supposed to. "So…last night happened," I chuckled nervously.

When I said last night, I meant everything, including the fact that I'd walked in on him and caught him almost having sex with another girl, and I knew without a doubt that she was still on the ship. Well, except someone volunteered to throw her into the water.

"Yeah, yeah, it did," he agreed, his eyes still stuck on me while I burned on the inside. A small moment of silence passed before he began to talk again. "And…I still want to say I'm sorry about what happened, too."

"What was that?" I asked, pretend