<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Bet</strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/ZtvrH1t.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Nerissa<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 12th , 2021, 5.15 PM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>SOPHE, Training grounds<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Albion<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong><br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Black and pink sportswear (https://i.imgur.com/zoYCQnw.png)<br/><br/><hr/><br/>“I’m sorry” She didn’t know what else to say. When Albion sat down she looked away. “It’s okay. You don’t need to worry about me. It’s not me who got hit here.” Not physically at least. It felt like there was awkward tension between them. She didn’t like it one bit.<br/><br/>“I’m embarrassing you. You don’t want to hug me for a long time if there is someone watching. I’m sure you have your own reasons. I don’t know if it’s because you don’t want others to think you are too close to me or because you simply don’t want to be too affectionate to me. I hope it’s not that you are ashamed of me.” Nerissa said while looking away from him. She wasn’t looking anything in particular. She simply wanted to avoid meeting his gaze.<br/><br/>“Albion, I don’t know if I have ever told it to you, but I appreciate our friendship. It’s very important to me and I don’t want to ruin it. If you asked a hug from me or lick your neck, or whichever part of your body that brings feeling of solace to you, I would do so. I wouldn’t care who saw us. I would be there for you as long as you need me, but I understand that it’s a different thing to you. I will not try to make you do something you don’t want to do.” She left unsaid that how much it hurt her that he had such limitations. Nerissa didn’t know his reasons, but… in a way it felt like he wanted to keep his distance to her because he didn’t want to be too attached to her. It made no sense. Why would he do so?<br/><br/>Nerissa looked at Albion with a faint smile as she fetched a water bottle and handed it to the man. What he did next confused the fox demon. First he turned down her simple request and now he is asking her to sit in his lap? She hadn’t hit him in the head that hard! This must be what all the talk about mixed signals means. “Oh, how I wish I knew what is going in your mind…” Nerissa sighed as she stepped closer. She could have sat on his leg, or stay between his legs, but instead she sat in his laps, her legs on both sides of the man. “I’m sorry that I ask you to do things you aren’t ready to give to me. You are too kind to me and I become confused, thinking that… I don’t know. My head is just one big mess right now. If I can stay near you like this… that’s enough.” She didn’t wrap her arms around him. Instead she kept her hands between them, quietly fumbling his shirt with her fingers as she leaned her head against his shoulder.<br/><br/>“Albion, sometimes you remind me of someone else. It’s the small things. The way you turn a steering wheel, how you put down a coffee mug down, the way you smile when something simple amuses you, how you hold a cigarette… “ There were many more little things she had noticed, but she told him just these, but even they were enough to let Albion know that the fox had been observing him much more carefully than he had thought. “I’m sorry. I guess it confuses me sometimes and makes me think that you will do anything I ask from you.” Her voice was somehow nostalgic as her body relaxed now that she got to sit in his lap.<br/>