"What's wrong?" Li Wei sat down. "Is it that Tiffany Rockefeller again?"
"No," Anya said sullenly. "It's Elizabeth Mellon."
"Oh!" Li Wei was taken aback and prudently kept his mouth shut.
...
「Half an hour earlier.」
"You know how stupid high school boys can be," Elizabeth said, choosing her words carefully. "So I wanted to ask you... um... if I could ask Li Wei to the prom?"
Anya was stunned for a moment. She had to agree that high school boys were pretty stupid. But she never expected Elizabeth to make such a strange request.
"Don't you know any other guys?" Anya's brow furrowed. "Why the sudden decision to invite him?"
"Because the social circle at Brielley Girls' School is too small," Elizabeth said with a sigh of resignation. "And you know my situation. I can't just casually take a boy from our social circles to the prom."
Anya nodded. That was true.
