'Did she actually buy it?'
Theo silently stared at the letters in the book, the title of which he didn't even bother checking.
Normally, those letters would morph into words which would then transform into sentences, each carrying a potentially different meaning depending on how closely one was willing to look. There was a meaning given through the sentence, another meaning stemming from the deliberate choice of words, and then another one hidden in the order the words were arranged in…
All of those meanings, however, currently flew above Theo's head as he stood as still as possible while observing Celeste with but the corner of his right eye while silently praying for success.
And for every passing second that Celeste stood dazed, deep in her thoughts, silently munching on her thumb's nail while pinning her eyes down on her shoes… for every passing second, Theo's hopes grew.
'She really looks like she bought it!'
