Pretentious

I shook my head.

Adam was about to talk more, seeing that he had grasped the attention of a Diana who had perhaps never seen a waterfall before, except in books, when I shook my head vehemently. That suggestion wasn't going to fly.

"I can't, Adam. I am not interested in seeing your waterfall." I voiced my thoughts-when he started talking about a secret cave in a garden-having noted that the gesture of my head hadn't been seen.

Adam looked taken aback at my resistance. He had obviously thought that the new girl would be excited at the idea. Well, I am sure that all the girls who he had taken there had been; I had been, when he had talked about the secrecy of the cave.

I felt like laughing at myself, at my goofiness and naivety then.

"But Dora, why?" Diana asked, pouting her lips. "I really wanted to see the secret cave with the waterfall. I .."