Chapter 21

"You're doing suicide, are you?"

I blinked for a few times before I swallowed and said, "Teacher Anthony?"

He sighed and ushered me towards the passenger door. "But I'm wet ---"

He cut my protest. "Doesn't matter."

I sat on the passenger seat and Teacher Anthony hastily closed the door. It was only then when I realized I was standing in the middle of the road when Teacher Anthony saw me shivering under the heavy rain.

When he sat on the driver's door, he looked at me for a brief moment before he ran the car ahead slowly. After a few minutes, he stopped the car at the sidewalk and looked at me again.

He cleared his throat. "What are you doing out there?"

My eyes looked down. "I-I don't know."

"Sydnee," he called. "I'll bring you back to your parents. What's your address?"

I shook my head and a dry laugh escaped from my lips. "I don't have a home."

"Sydnee."

"Please, I don't want to go home. My mother don't want me to go back there."

His brow knotted. "No parents could afford