Not forced

Jason chuckled softly, and then he looked backward for a few seconds before he returned his gaze to Brenda who was still waiting to hear what he was going to say.

“Today is the first day of the week.”

“Okay? What about that?”

“We agreed that we were going to go on a date this week, right?”

“Oh, you remember?” Brenda had a neutral expression on her face while Jason gave her a curious stare.

“What is it? You don’t seem excited about the date.”

“What? That’s not true, I am excited about it.”

“Then why does your face say a different thing?” Jason took one step upward, and then he waited for her to join him with his eyes staring inquisitively at her.

Brenda climbed up the step and turned to look at Jason who was still waiting to hear what she was going to say.

“I just don’t want to get my hopes high, Jay.”

“Oh.” Jason was speechless as he wasn’t sure of what to say to Brenda who looked into the cup as though something had entered into it.

“So are you saying that you a