Chapter 32: The Reset
Adam stood perfectly still inside the cramped, dark closet. He could hear everything happening outside. He heard the door open. He heard the muffled voices of Sophia and her younger sister.
He had not expected that Sophia had a younger sister, but now he remembers that Sophia had told him. He overhears all the conversations between Sofia’s younger sister and gets extremely worried thinking what will happen if Sofia’s family catches him
He heard the teasing questions the panicked denials. The thin wooden door did little to block the sound. He remained motionless his breathing slow and even until he heard the bedroom door close again. A few moments of silence followed. Then he heard Sophia’s voice a soft whisper from the other side of the closet door.
"Adam you can come out now."
He pushed the closet door open and stepped back into the room. Sophia was standing by her bed her face a deep shade of red. She couldn’t meet his eyes. "That was my younger sister," she stammered looking at the floor. "She jokes around a lot."
Adam thinks that this doesn’t sound like a joke to me at all but he doesn’t tell this to Sophia because he has to think about how to get out of this situation right now.
Adam said nothing. He simply stood there watching her. The morning light was beginning to filter through the window casting long shadows across the room. The awkward silence stretched between them.
Sophia finally looked up at him. "It’s almost time for school," she said her voice a little stronger now. "Why don’t you take a shower? Then we can go to school together."
Her suggestion caught him completely off guard. He had planned to leave as soon as possible to slip away before the rest of her family woke up.
"Sofia is in her right mind, isn’t she?" Adam thinks this but he is unable to understand what Sophia is planning to do. He cannot live with her like this and going to school is a far-fetched idea.