Chapter Thirty-Three

“Mum said I should come check up on you. Don’t you have classes today?”

Alex pulled his sheets off his head to look up to his cousin standing by his door, arms folded.

“I do,” he replied, getting up. “I’ll be downstairs in a bit. Oh and tell her I won’t be having breakfast. You can all go ahead without me.”

“Okay.”

Watching his cousin leave his room, Alex let out a sigh. He had woken up tired hours ago and had gotten ready for school only to plop into his bed and bury himself under his sheets again as the thought of facing Seb came.

He spent the rest of the previous day in his room, not stepping out for even a second. He skipped dinner and had intended on skipping breakfast alongside school for the whole day until his aunt just had to send his cousin to check up on him.

She noticed his foul mood from the previous day and no matter how many times she asked, his answer was still the same- he was fine and just not hungry.

That was only partly true though as though he wasn’t hungr