Chapter 25 (a)

It was already evening and Adam had not yet returned home. The neighbourhood kid also plays in the same park near Aunt Jade’s house, he also returned home but Adam did not. And how long does he spend there? Everyone knew that Adam does not make friends easily, so why would he stay there for so long?

He was angry with his mother and his mother knew it. Whoever met him on the way, seeing the sadness on his face, understood that Adam did not feel like talking to anyone. And if anything was left or was hidden then his classmates had told their mothers what had happened today because of which Adam was sad.

That is why no one tried to go beyond that.

And now Hazel was getting very worried about him. Adam never stayed out of the house past five o’clock in the evening, but today it was fifteen minutes past five o’clock. The park was only five minutes away from the house.

When she asked her neighbour’s child on the way about Adam, he said that he was playing football and other games with s