Real or pretense

She called him again and again and still did not get his attention, so she snapped her fingers in his face and called out to him again before he came to, with a startled expression on his face.

"What!? What did you say?"

"Oh my God! Where did you go to!? You were lost in your thoughts, what's up with that?"

"Oh, nothing. What were you saying?" He asked with an unusually bright smile just to convinced her that everything was fine.

"No seriously Mike, that doesn't look like nothing to me. You were having this fierce facial expression, it was scary. What was that all about? Are you okay? You can talk to me you know?"

"C'mon Abby, don't exaggerate. I'm good, honestly. I was just thinking about business. While you were gone, I got a phone call from my supplier about not meeting up with delivery as scheduled" he lied with a straight face.

"Seriously?"