Chapter 13.5

"Are you offering Alexis?" He smirked, I could tell he was trying to make light of the situation but then seeing how serious I was he stopped. "I guess so. I mean I'm grateful for them taking me under their wings and keeping me from the streets and drugs and crime. But who doesn't want a normal, perfect life? Sometimes you can't have what you hoped for. But Alexis, you can still fall in love."

"But you said it wasn't allowed in the Nations. That it would mess things up and if they knew they'd drop you."

"I guess for the right person then. I'd be willing to leave everything behind." His eyes bore into mine and the intensity again was overbearing I found myself playing tentatively with my fingers, like they were the most interesting set of fingers in the world.

I didn't continue and neither did he.

Silence, absolute silence. Until it was too deafening, that I couldn't take it anymore. "Do you miss them