"I gotta tell you the truth," I walked home with my head hanging the entire way.
Strolling leisurely on the street as the lanterns first lit was something I'd never experienced before. That noisy girl from every day had unexpectedly become my girlfriend—a development nobody could have foreseen. Even though we had already clumsily confirmed our feelings for each other before this (once again, I'm amazed by Miss Lin's emotional clumsiness and innocence), nothing seemed to have changed afterward. We still bickered and played around whenever we saw each other, until today when I finally caught a glimpse of that ambiguous, warm atmosphere.
Unfortunately, the atmosphere also involved someone's frantic scolding and my own scratching my head in embarrassment.