Chapter 48: Studying together
As Maxim started eating in silence, Diana nudged his elbow, ’’You were absent for whole 3 days. I went to your place but the door was locked so I thought Auntie was at her job and you... maybe vacationing?" she joked.
He shrugged, ’’You look stressed,’’ he did not explain why he was absent for days. It happened throughout the semester anyway. Juggling between the jobs left him little time for other stuff. He wanted his mother to stop working like there was no tomorrow.
It has been a year since she slipped down the stairs in a rush to go to her job and while she was taken to the hospital back then, her back injuries still rebounded from time to time when she overworked herself.
Diana took it as her cue to drop the topic, ’’Umm... Actually, I have an offer for you,’’ she said after a moment of hesitation.
Maxim continued eating.
Diana lowered her head to her food tray.
’’I am listening,’’ he said.
She bit her bottom lips, ’’Look, I know how busy you are. I know you have started a part-time job too and you need to work super hard to get into medical school,’’ to be able to manage the fees too. She skipped the latter part of the sentence.
Maxim glanced at her patiently, not bothering to correct her about the ’job’ part. He had not started a part-time job, he has started three of them recently.