Chapter 114

Celestine's POV

My phone rings. I pick it up and look at the caller ID. It's Eve.

Answering the call, I place it against my ear.

"Hello," Eve says as a way of greeting.

"Hey," I answer, getting comfortable on the bed with a pillow under my arm. It's been three days since I came home. Meaning Eve should have gone home now. "Are you back home?"

"Yeah. Got here yesterday." A heavy sigh. "I don't know why I'm made to come here every year. She's never home."

I rise a bit, sitting up straighter. "Have you seen her since you got back?" I know the answer to that question but I ask anyways.

"No, I haven't." Another heavy sigh. "Can't wait for when I'm done with school and don't need to be coming here again."

"You want to hang out?" I offer. I don't mind going out to cheer her up.

"Nah, I'm good." I hear footsteps on hardwood, kind of like she's moving. "Enough about me. How are you two holding up there? Do you think his dad suspects something is going on?" The sound of a fridge opening flows