Unsettled

Jasmine

Making my way back home in Nadia’s car, as Hardin could not stay around to take me back home because he had to attend to pressing issues and had only convinced me to come to school on Dad’s instructions, I hissed endlessly.

“What is it? I’ve been asking and you’re not saying anything. Is everything fine at home?” Nadia asked, and I shook my head.

It was not the best answer, as I had been the one to call her attention to me with the way I hissed. But I doubted I wanted to add my problems to one more person.

The last person that I had just talked to, Lorenzo had only added more problems to me. But putting my mom’s condition first, I had to accept the creepy condition.

The thought of it still ate me as I quietly stayed in Nadia’s car.

And even as it was necessary that I tell her about my mom’s health, and I did not want to accidentally add the part of Lorenzo’s offer so I decided to keep shut.

“Drop me here!”

“Here?” Nadia’s question came. “But it’s still a distance from yo