Gloom

Chapter 21

"It's a less bad way of telling me I look dead," I said. But at least I don't need glasses to see well.

"I still see without them," she defended.

She took them off and hung them at the neck of the white T-shirt she was wearing, but her eyes narrowed almost immediately. Of course, the change wasn't much, since the glasses didn't have enough magnification to distort his brown eyes. She wanted to tease him about the slight red mark that her glasses had left on the bridge of her nose, but at that moment Diana appeared and hung from her neck to kiss her on the cheek.

"Dave!" She greeted him enthusiastically. Twice in the same week? Are you going to die or what?

"I'm finally a bit free," he replied, giving a dramatic sigh.

-We have a date? Diana looked at us suggestively.

"We're just going to see a movie," he replied, and that comforted me. Do you want to come?

She stared at him, as if wondering if he had become stupid.

"I can't," he lied in a tone so natural that it made me envious, "I pro