Chapter 30: Call Me If You Need Anything

Toby came back in and sat silently in the corner, looking deep in thought. She can’t stop herself from asking him. “Is everything okay with you? You seem different. You’re not acting like you normally do.” She said to him softly.  He spared her a glance and shook his head. They lapsed into yet another awkward silence.  “I informed your parents, by the way. You can rest easy.”  She slowly nodded her head and then said, “Okay.”  And yet they got into one of the infamous awkward silences. It was beginning to get a little stuffy inside her private room. It used to be more fun around Toby, but he suddenly changed. Whatever was eating him up as it suddenly dawned on her!! Of course!!! Why didn’t she think of it?!  “Toby, what exactly caused the accident then if we weren’t drunk? Or were we drunk? Please tell me.”  He looked at her deeply, then stood up and went over to the window.  “I’d gotten you to come to see my parents with me, sort of blind them, and make them think I was straight so th