He returns the smile weakly. He doesn’t really feel like smiling at the moment, but he forces it anyway.

He glances at the clock on the wall, noticing that it’s already past midnight. He looks back at her, hesitantly opening his mouth to speak.

“Hey, Alex? Can I stay for a while?”

She blinks a few times before looking at him with a surprised expression. She shakes her head slowly, biting her lip. “I...um…I don’t think that that’s a good idea. You have to get up early tomorrow. You probably have things to do, and we promised that we’d get breakfast together today. I don’t think that it’s a good...