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Walking back home, I could not get out the sour feeling covering my chest. It was almost dinner time, and Alessio had insisted that we always have dinner together, but the way things had shifted between us since Halloween night, I wondered if we could even sit in front of each other without getting into a fight.

By the time I came out of my room after changing into night clothes, dinner table had already been set and Alessio was waiting for me with the fork in his fist while staring blankly at the table.

I took my seat, served food, and started eating. The silence was deafening than any sound I had ever heard. Throughout the dinner he did not make any attempt to talk to me, and neither did I. Both of us were focused on eating but the food going in my mouth appeared tasteless.

Just as I drank water, and started standing up, he looked up to stare at me,

“How did the Luna training go?”

I lowered my body and sat back down. My firsts clenched in my lap as I tried to tame down the ange