"Why did you look relieved just now? Weren't you flirting with her a few seconds ago?"
Alexander could feel his soul coming and going out of his body.
"Flirting is one thing, getting married is another. Eric flirts with every second girl he sees but does that mean he wants to marry them all? No! It's harmless fun," he said like it was as easy as eating ice cream.
When he noticed Abe's glares still making holes in his head, he started blabbering the first thing that came to his mind when he looked next to him.
Alora.
"I am sure that my teacher isn't interested in me either. She definitely doesn't want to get married to me. She sees me as a student. Nothing more and nothing less," he tried to justify his point of view as if he was standing in front of the judge.
He looked like a desperate criminal who has to justify his crimes one way or another lest the judge declares his death time.