Chapter 55 - 54. Crumb Picking
Sarah swallowed nervously at the man’s sharp observation. Still, she tried to deflect. "What shift?"
"Well...something," Austin shrugged while munching on the cookies that Sarah forced-feed him. "You behave differently from the last time I see you."
Ugh--so he wasn’t just someone who cared about numbers.
Sarah pursed her lips slightly. "Different how?"
"Hmm...how should I say this?" Austin stroked his chin as if he were appraising a stock market graph instead of someone else’s situationship. "He acts cautiously around you--haven’t even flirted at all since I came here, only staring dagger at me occasionally."
"R-really?"
Was it because she was used to it? Even when Hajin was being flirty, it just felt like a normal conversation. When he stopped, it also just a normal conversation.
Or perhaps because she wasn’t a very observant person in the first place...
"And you--" Austin shifted his sharp gaze to the flustered girl.
"Me? What about me? I’m acting like usual," Sarah said quickly, shamelessly.
Austin smirked at the reflexive deflect. "The fact that you feel the need to say that means you realize that you’re not acting like usual."