"What?"

I was stunned.

"Is he going to take me there with him?"

I pretended that I didn't know anything and asked him in a feigned daze, "Where are we going at such a late hour?" 

Patrick lowered his eyes slightly and said word by word, "I have to go to my grandfather's birthday banquet. But I won't be at ease by leaving you at home alone. So I have to take you there with me."

"Are you crazy?" I looked at him and said, "How can I go there like this? If it were Halloween today, I could go out to scare others."

I laughed at myself.

No way...