"I thought you professed love for him. Why did you turn him down?" Sofia asked me as she walked down the stairs. I wondered how the news had spread so quickly.

"I don't understand you, Sofia. What do you mean, and who have I turned down?" I asked, trying to sound casual.

"Come on, Rebecca, don't act like you have no idea what I'm talking about. It's all over the internet that you turned down Thompson's proposal last night, yet here you are having fun with him. Is that right? You profess fake love to him," Sofia said to me.

"I'm sorry, Sofia, but you have to understand that I...