During lunch, Raymond kept stealing covert glances at her across the table. Emilia tried valiantly not to meet his eyes, but she failed woefully. Just at the end of her meal, Madame Dolores said something about one of her triplets, which made Raymond let out an amused laughter. Emilia had looked up, a little startled, as she hadn't heard him laugh like that since she had gotten back to Princeton. Their eyes met, and her best friend's laughter slowly died down as he looked into her eyes. Suddenly an image of Raymond glancing at her towel-clad chest flashed into her mind.

It had taken her an infinite amount of self...