7 ~ Aurora

"Hey Riv," I smiled tiredly into the phone, picking up after the third ring.

Her smile faded as soon as she saw mine, "Why do you look so worn out?"

"I just had so much unpacking to do." I lied.

"Unpacking? The Aurora I know would do it immediately. It's been days. Or is it the honeymoon?" She wiggled her brows suggestively at the last sentence.

I chuckled, "There's no honeymoon."

The truth is my mother in-law had given me a never-ending chore to clean up a dusty basement because in her opinion I wanted to busy myself so bad. I could not tell River that.

"Why not?"

"Leo has some things to work on." I said. Leo, the same person I had hardly had a conversation with.

She huffed, "I don't think I'm convinced. Is he treating you right?"

I was reluctant to answer that. Was he treating me badly? Not exactly, he only was not talking to me, never smiled when I was in the room and sometimes ignored me when I spoke. That's not so bad right? I was being delusional with my thought process.