“If she did nothing with the boy, why is she being so defensive?” Because she’s Bernice. There is nothing so inconsequential that she can’t turn it into a three-alarm fire.
Many years ago, I was at a thing at my sister’s house. My niece was there, along with a friend. Friend mentioned something about her high school drama teacher and we’d gone to high school together. I told her that we’d dated for a while and the girl seemed a little confused. She said “Somehow I just can’t picture the two of you…” so I helpfully finished her sentence with “parked out in the middle of nowhere with the windows all fogged up?” She had a horrified look on her face, so I said “What? Do you think you invented it?”
If you do it at night, you don’t need privacy tint-especially if you go someplace remote. And if you learn just a little astronomy lore, you can wow them with some learning as you stare at the stars (the story of Andromeda and Perseus is good for building romance). Bonus fact-the reason the Moon is red during a lunar eclipse is that you’re seeing the light from every sunrise and sunset on Earth, all at the same time.
While Ken is living in a one-room apartment with a bare bulb, eating Bachelor Chow three times a day.