The Day I Kissed An Older Man

"I'm just surprised that you'd have the time to come over. Aren't you super busy?" Melody maintained a meters' distance while conversing with Sherman. "I just so happened to have a bit of free time, so I passed by a bubble tea shop and bought a few cups for you. This is your favorite, isn't it?" Sherman asked. Melody felt a little awkward and was unsure whether she should accept the gesture.

"It is, but you don't have to go through all that trouble," Melody answered.

Sherman then remarked, "You're standing a little too far away that I can't hear what you're saying. Come a little closer so I can hear you."

Melody approached him awkwardly, and their distance had reached to about a shoe's length away. "I'm sorry. I don't mean to be so far away, but..." She hesitated to mention that she wanted to avoid suspicion. The recent buzz about her and the actor had made her cautious not to add more fuel to the speculative fires.

Sherman, being of a younger generation, was likely aware of that news. "Is it because of the headlines and rumors about you and your co-worker? Are you more careful with your relationships now because you're worried about having another scandal?" Sherman smiled, seemingly downplaying the situation.

"I saw those comments. They're actually quite interesting! You can't be worried that someone is secretly filming a video of us to post online, right?"

found it challenging to articulate her concerns, but she was mainly afraid of being swept up in one controversy after another. "Let's just talk like this. You can

head, seemingly untroubled. "Why are you so scared? My cousin has you

want other

afraid of? My cousin isn't in the country anyway. He wouldn't know what's happening here at

it in the morning when Edmund came to the house to pack his luggage. No one could have gotten the information that quickly, and she wondered how Sherman could find

don't know where he went, but I can be certain that he left in a hurry and didn't take anything with him. It must've been an emergency, or

going abroad. It was unusual for him to share a flight with other

Melody smiled and asked,

it strange. "Didn't he