Intrigued

This morning immediately after Mass I had to let our music ministry coordinator, who now has become a close friend, know that I won't be available to play during the First Friday Mass this coming 06 March. Because he himself was teaching at university here, I didn't want to be a show off and naturally refused to tell him the reason--which was that I was to attend an awarding ceremony to receive my teaching award on that day. He was immediately intrigued: did I have a date? I simply said no and left it at that. But later on when we met again, he apparently couldn't get the subject off his mind and bombarded me again with questions: was I getting married? was I engaged? Was I leaving or migrating to join my sister in Canada?