Chapter 28: Intent
I stood awkwardly as Dace paid with his card, this was the feeling I was hoping to escape. I knew he said I shouldn’t worry about it, Dace offered to give me a treat but still, I couldn’t shake that feeling that I was leeching off him, maybe it had to deal with how worlds apart we were in terms of status, even as I stood beside him, I felt like an off piece of the puzzle. His presence was far off radiative with his charms and his style and I was... just the average girl.
We walked out of the restaurant and we both welcomed the silence, luckily the hall was a bit noisy so the silence wasn’t that much awkward, I heard Dace’s phone ring and my gaze moved to it, due to the close proximity we were in I was able to see the caller, it was his ’Angel’ I felt that sting again as memories of what happened that day flushed in.
"Yeah? " he picked. "Really Emilia?"
I paused, wait, the ’Angel’ was his sister?
"So what if I didn’t respond to the link"
The link? What’s he talking about?
"How sweet of you" he ended the call.
"I-Is everything alright?" I was worried, Dace and his sister seemed to always argue about things, this was the first time I spent with them together, and yet I was able to notice the tense air around them.
"They left"
"Oh" I made a sound downhearted.
"Don’t worry Emma, it’s not about you, I’m sure they had something to take care of" he assured me with that smile of his but I still couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something he was not telling me, ever since what happened at the table.