"Idiot saps maybe, but it was all true," Beth answers, lighting up in a grin. Maybe the chocolate hadn't worked out well for her and Zhou, but it's nice to think it wasn't all bad and Edgar doesn't seem too sad about it. "I talked to Magnus after Zhou kinda spilled his guts and he told me the chocolate didn't make anyone say anything they didn't really feel."

She'd been hoping for some other kind of answer at the time, wanting Magnus to tell her it was all just a trick, but now she's not so sure. She does like Zhou, after all. She likes knowing he likes her. It's just complicated.

It's nice, too, knowing Edgar's got people like that in his life. A few years ago she never would have expected to be someone who was okay with stuff like that, guys being together, people having more than one other person in their relationship, but she's changed a lot over the years and all she cares about now is that people are happy.