Gift

"Can I ask you a question?" Tom asked after a while as they ate in silence.

"As long as it has nothing to do with the color of my undie," Lucy said dryly as she took a forkful of spaghetti into her mouth, making Tom chuckle.

"I overdid that, didn't I?" Tom asked, feeling somewhat embarrassed now that he remembered all he said that day. 

"Yes, you definitely did. Now that we are on the subject, let me get something straight. Are you usually like that? I mean that... Raw?" Lucy asked after she swallowed the food in he mouth.

Tom shook his head, "No, I'm not. I was just trying to get into your head. Jade said good girls like bad guys and..."

"Hold on, that was really the reason why you did this whole makeover stuff with your appearance?" Lucy asked incredulously.

"But it worked. Didn't it?" Tom pointed out defensively.