Fourteen

Alicia's POV

"I was hoping we would come home together,"

Nathan declared as soon as he walked into the house. I glared at him.

As if that's exactly what he wanted.

I left the party several minutes after Willam Cadry and his wife left. When I say several.minutes, I mean just three minutes. There was no one else to talk to except for Malik who wouldn't stop talking. Once he did, I used the chance to tell him I was leaving. I was getting bored anyway. It wasn't my kind of scene and it was hard to try to keep up.

Nathan on the other hand was surrounded by so many others that it would've been difficult to let him know that I was leaving so I told Malik to tell him whenever he got the chance.

I was sitting at the foot of the staircase and it kind of surprised me when Nathan sat on a step below the one I was sitting on.

"Why are you up so late?"

"I'm not a kid, Nathan. I sleep when I want to,"

I answered, brewing from the tens of anger rising inside of me. I'd made an attempt to think