I nodded and said, “Yeah, we’re just friends.” “Ah, that’s a shame,” she replied after a long pause. “For a moment there, I thought you had managed to do the impossible.” “The impossible?” “Distract him from rugby.” “Oh.” I clasped my hands together, unsure of how to respond to that. “Well, I haven’t,” was all I came up with, followed with, “We’re just friends.”
