58: Let's talk, love.

Alaric

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"Where were you?" Moana fired her first question the moment I appeared in her room.

She was the one who didn’t want me around her.

"I told you indirectly that I would be at Beasty’s place."

"For this long?" She questioned. I looked at the time, and I realised that I had been with him for just 45 minutes.

"Did you miss me? And I watched a flying teddy bear fly towards my face. I could have dodged the attack, but I let it hit my face.

"Miss you? Not at all. By the way, what is in the lunch box?" She asked and snatched it at the same time, like a little child. She opened the zip of the bag and frowned.

"I’ve specially made this for you," I said proudly, and in the next second, I wanted to take it back when she took out chocolate bars. "Except that." I quickly corrected myself, thinking Eleazer might have kept it with the pudding, but I went out of my way when she took an apple out of the bag.

And then orange.

And the worst was yet to come—a note that she read out loud.

"A small