Chapter 104

(ALEX]

“Do you have a family?” She asked, and I’d be lying if I said that the first feeling in me wasn’t suspicion.

But it didn’t look like she put any thought into it, just asked what was on the top of her head.

“I do,” replied.

“What? Really?” Her eyes widened. “I didn’t think you were a family guy.”

“I have a mom. A dad. A twin sister. Younger brother. An uncle and an aunt. The whole package, actually,”

“No way.” Her eyes bulged while she made her way to sit on the wooden steps leading to the garden, her feet still dipped into the grass as if it was something to touch. She wanted to touch grass. Who the f**k touches grass? “Your parents encouraged you to be a part of the…” she hesitated, her voice turning into a whisper, “Mafia?”

I rolled my eyes at how dramatic she was. “Mafia. You can say it.”

She raises her shoulders.

“And no,” I answer her, I don’t know why. “My father wanted to kill me when he found it, but I think a part of him always knew about my knack for destruction- right since I started a fire in my school,”

Now, her eyes looked like they would fall out of their sockets. “You started a fire in your school? How old were you? Sixteen?”

“Twelve,” I smile, reminiscing.

“Why even?”

“I wanted to go watch a football game.”

did your parents

was grounded for the month. Mom didn’t talk to me for a week. It

“Aww. Mama’s boy?”

I wasn’t going to tell her that.

“What happened then?”

a gun and started shooting

would never leave them. I would just

I sit next to her, leaving a good few feet between us.

three days old.” Her voice turns smaller. “I think they gave me up because they didn’t want me, but I still missed them all my life, you know? Like there was this huge mom and dad shaped emptiness

tt

enquire, “No friends?

a new foster home, I lost them. At some point, it felt why attach yourself to people if you’re going have to

certain heaviness in her voice, and then there was the way she looked straight ahead, as if making a conscious effort to not

I push. “How did you

light scoff under her

“really do.” Tinsist.

There

almost icy when they were set at me, her hair flying due to the wind

was the one getting to know you. Why do you live alone

alone on my floor, except you now. The

why do you have so many rooms on your floor if you’re

rooms, where

in them. “There have been

“Maybe,” I lie.

“Other girls?”

raise an

the fact that they’re not here

because I killed them.” I tell her, and she visibly shudders.

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255