Chapter 53. Outstanding and Outsmarting

Hours earlier 

  "Why did you really want to meet, Aria? It is not like I am trying to sound so annoying or anything, but you really are not the type to honour invites like this immediately. Are you sure everything is okay?" Collin, who was looking at the lady that was sitting in front of him asked, trying to figure out if anything was going wrong with her. 

  He had expected her to refuse his request and had prepared for the disappointment, but she rather surprised him by agreeing to come meet him wherever he chose.

  She was barely eating any slice from the pizza that they ordered, and even the drink he noticed that she really liked was left untouched. As much as she tried to look okay after she accepted his idea to eat lunch together, he still could sense that something was wrong with everything about her. 

 "A very nice friend of mine died. It is so upsetting," Aria told him just one of the many thin