Chapter 57

Aliyah tried to make sense of the whole thing but she was having a stroke of awful luck with that. She was confronted with the great dilemma of how to interpret Ben's words.

Jennie suddenly took her bag and dashed out of the house in anger after the altercation. Aliyah remained where she was because she knew that if Jennie had spotted her she would transfer all her annoyance and displeasure onto her. She didn't see why anything concerning her would escalate such an argument between them. At least she knew that she was not going to be seeing Jennie's face for a while, with the way she left in anger.

She went back to her room and got changed before going back to the kitchen.

"I thought you said you were going out somewhere?" Viola asked

"Well apparently not anymore," she walked up to the island at the center of the kitchen and rested her stretched arms upon them.

"Guess that's good then, you didn't seem pleased about it in the first place," Viola stated.

"Yeah." Aliyah smiled faint