11 - All In The Family

~Emilia’s Point of View~

“Your home is so lovely Mrs. Petrov,” I said, feeling overwhelmed. 

“Darling! It’s Yulia, please! I’m just Yulia,” she said, beaming at me, with a fake enthusiasm nobody would believe.

I smiled back at Pavel’s mom, feeling incredibly out of place. His parents were having a large Christmas Eve party and there were just so many people. We’d stayed with a cousin of his for a couple of days when we first came out, something about his parents being out of town. It seemed odd to me but Pavel didn't want to explain himself. There seemed to be a lot of that going on and I’d had a few moments where I wondered why he even brought me.

Maybe I was just being paranoid, but there were just always whispers. People speaking in hushed tone