Tension building
As they ate once more, they laughed and made jokes. Mariah tried a few times to tell Malik about her vitiligo, but she stopped herself. She felt like the timing was not right yet and it was still too early in the night to make this big reveal. She wanted to build it up for dramatic effect.
So the two would go to the other room to play a board game, just like they would do together all the time as friends. The board game went on, and finally, the time came to get it all off her chest. But she hesitated for a moment and left the room to go into the bathroom.