Chapter 9

KIRA:

Slowly I turn around, mustering enough courage not to reveal my emotions. “Wh– What are you talking about?” I ask.

The distance between Bradley and me was a little much now due to walking out on him a few seconds ago. So what he does first is to cover up the distance a little.

“I only asked a simple question,” he says, his eyes seeming like they could see through me.

“That didn’t seem like a question to me,” I rebuff.

“Do you have anything to hide?”

Anxiously, I peel my eyes off him for a brief second before looking back at him. “Do I look like I do?”

Bradley folds his arms below his chest. “You tell me,”

“Well, I don’t. So stop questioning me like I’m doing something wrong,”

So I turn around once again to leave. I do not even bother to listen to note if he was on my tail but I am sure he is.

He proves he is directly behind me when his voice gets straight to my ears. “You could have just said ‘no’, you know? You didn’t have to be so dramatic about the whole thing,” was what he s