Upon hearing Noah express his opinion, Sherry was immediately flushed. She lowered her head and tightly held onto his shirt feeling so embarrassed that she wished the earth would just swallow her up right then and there and get it over with.
"Noah, I know that was so thoughtless of me. But you just won't look at me no matter what I do. I couldn't think of any other way to grab your attention aside from..."
Sherry abruptly stopped talking, but what she was trying to express was clear as day. It was a smart decision for her to directly admit her mistakes after getting exposed. It, at the very least, made her look upstanding since she made no attempts to deny it.
Noah handed the menu over to her and said, "Have a look at the menu and see what else you would like to have for dinner. I'll ask them to cook these dishes first. When Carla and Sean get back from the restroom, they can just add some dishes later."
Sherry was visibly feeling distressed as she shot him a glance and said in a sulky voice, "You seem to be only concerned when it comes to Carla. I noticed how your eyes had been glued to her the whole time. But you never once looked at me even though I was the one standing right next to you."
Noah's hand was frozen for a moment when he was about to grab his cup of tea. Then he turned and looked toward the corridor and checked to see if Carla and Sean had gone back yet.
"It's good that you're aware of it. I'm glad to hear that,"
Noah flat out replied without trying to evade her question. Carefully picking up his tea, he slowly took a sip of it.
A bit confused and perplexed upon hearing Noah's response, Sherry thought that she might have just heard him wrong. So, she put the menu down on the table and tried to ask him a second time, her eyes filled with so much disbelief, "Noah, what did you just say? Did I hear that correctly? You... You and Carla?
No, no way. This can't be real! What does she have that I don't? She's wearing cheap clothes and she's even got a younger brother to take care of. For all I know, people might even think that's her own child if they didn't know better.
How come you fancy someone like her? Just what the hell is it that you see in her?"
Sherry was so overwhelmed by shock that she went a bit hysterical after discovering the cold hard truth. Not able to control her emotions, it had been written all over her face.
However, she was only fooling herself since she truly believed that there was no way Carla could ever be living better than her.
In Sherry's eyes, Carla couldn't compare to her in any way. She just wasn't as elegant nor attractive as Sherry was.
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