Peter had no idea what Gwen's little head had imagined, only that she apparently had no intention of telling anyone about his embarrassing moment. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
To keep her from recalling that awkward scene, Peter quickly took a sip of water and forced some awkward small talk with the girl beside him.
Peter had a fairly broad range of knowledge. As long as it was related to online trends, a shut-in guy always knew a little about it.
Gradually, though, he discovered that Gwen was not the aloof ice queen he had imagined. On the contrary, she could keep up with every topic he brought up. She had played quite a few video games and had even joined tabletop campaigns online with other netizens.
She seemed pretty nerdy too. That made her one of his own.
Peter relaxed and began talking naturally with Gwen. Before he knew it, that strange sense of temporal dislocation from the past had vanished, and the more they talked, the more they clicked.
This made Mary Jane, sitting behind them, narrow her eyes and prick up her ears to eavesdrop.
Mary knew Peter best. Simply put, Peter had a reserved but flirtatious personality.
When he did not know someone well, he seemed like a transparent person with no presence at all. But once he became familiar with them, he was incredibly chatty, always rambling on and on without end.
Mary had always thought Peter liked Marshall Jones, who was now beside her, because MJ had the most outgoing personality and got along well with many of the boys in class.
So she had guessed wrong? Had Peter been secretly watching Gwen in class all along?
It did make sense. After all, in their little group, Gwen was the