Sophia
I didn’t expect to be the first one awake, but I was. I got out of bed early, noticing that Bright was still asleep. I wasn’t going to stay with him after the barely-there conversation we had last night. I needed something else to distract my mind, something that had nothing to do with him. I needed to escape the thoughts of what happened last night… how Bright had come to my room looking for shelter, for company… maybe for love. But we hadn’t talked about anything.
He just came to tell me he loved me, to sleep beside me but made it very clear that he didn’t want to talk about it. He left me with a mouth full of questions. I refused to keep my mouth shut, but none of my words got through to him. Nothing. Just more silence. More hugs. And an uncertainty that grew heavier and heavier inside me. The most contradictory hug and silence anyone had ever given me.
That’s why, when I woke up, I got out of bed and decided to go down to the kitchen. I offered to help the cooks with breakf
