"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"What happened today was a misunderstanding, and I came to explain it to you."
Gilbert and Amber exchanged a smile. "It's like this. My mom keeps nagging me to find a girlfriend, and it's driving me crazy. So I thought of finding someone to pretend, just to get her off my back. Amber is my best friend, so I asked her for help.
"So, things aren't what you think. Please don't take it to heart. If you're angry, just take it out on me. Yell at me, hit me, I don't care. I just hope you don't blame Amber."
Before I could say anything, Amber jumped in to defend him. "Hadson, Gilbert is sincerely apologizing to you. Don't be so petty."
Seeing them defending each other and exchanging glances, I felt like an outsider, like I was the one who had committed a grave sin and had to be judged by them.
I immediately got angry. "So should I thank him? Thank him for taking my girlfriend to pretend to be his girlfriend and meet his parents? What's next, are you going to move in with his family?"
Amber's face immediately hardened.
Then she growled, "Can you please not put it that way? It makes it sound like Gilbert and I are having an affair!