“Raphael! You can’t be serious!”

Raphael sighed for the umpteenth time that night, “Believe me when I tell you, this is a very serious matter!” he insisted, pacing back and forth in his room. He had finally convinced Alice to come over to his apartment to talk about the topic of discussion with him. ‘She’s going to find out eventually anyway, and I have to know her reaction before she finds out from someone else!’ he thought to himself.

“But, but what if it’s too much? It would ruin everything between us forever if it turns out like that, and we could never recover from that!” Alice protested.

“It’s not...