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DRAKE:

It was already evening, but Beatrice had not returned.

Dammit.

My heart had been pounding in my chest like crazy while my hands felt clammy.

Is this the right time to go after her? Just to check? This is so unlike Beatrice. How could I stay still and not worry?

This kind of situation made me want to put a GPS tracker on her phone just to know whether she was right now.

Do you think tracking her would make her happy, Drake?

Of course, it won't. It would make her even mad at me.

For the nth time, I would occasionally glance at the clock to check the time, hoping that Beatrice would return. She sure was taking her time. Did she enjoy her blind date?

It was your fault for being slow. If you were only fast. If you only dated her, this would never happen at all. Stop waiting for some kind of miracle that she would suddenly like you without doing anything.

How could I date her when another part of me was guilty of what I did in the past? Did I even have the right to be with