You're the One at Fault, Kairos!

“A classmate?”

Werner approached Kairos with a friendly smile.

Kairos, meanwhile, looked like he’d completely misunderstood our relationship, so I spoke first.

“It’s none of your business, anyway. Whoever he is.”

“What?”

Kairos’s gaze immediately turned to me.

That left Werner, who’d been about to strike up a conversation, awkwardly falling silent.

I stepped between them and declared,

“He’s my reading buddy.”

“Reading buddy?”...