You didn’t just agree to go out with Ben because you felt pressured into it, did you?” I’m so caught off guard that it takes me a few seconds to respond. “No,” I say. “Not at all.” It’s not technically a lie. It wasn’t that I was pressured. It’s that I’m using Ben to shake Colin awake and force him out of his state of denial, but I can’t exactly come out and say that to his girlfriend.

