" They’re freaked out about Orion.”
“After you’ve only been dating two months?”
“We’re not dating!”
Aadhya made a dramatic show of rolling her eyes heavenwards.
“After you’ve been doing whatever you’re doing that is not dating but looks like dating to everyone else, for only two months.”
“Thanks ever so,” I said dryly. “As far as I can tell, they’re shocked that he’s talking to another human being at all.”
“To be fair, you’re the only person I’ve ever met who’d come up with the idea of being wildly rude and hostile to the guy who saved your life twenty times,” Aadhya said.
I glared at her. “Thirteen times! And I’ve saved his life at least twice.”
“Catch up already, girl,” she said unrepentantly. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)