Can I Have This Dance

Chapter 17

XANIA

That afternoon when I came home from school after our Christmas Party, instead of going straight to work, I looked for a hidden place where I could vent my resentment, to be in beast mode.

I didn’t cry at what the baboon said. I was used to the sharpness of his tongue since that time I was the personal assistant of that baboon. If I’m an onion-skinned, I would have quit that job a long time ago. But now, he is really overreacting.

I arrived late at the café that made Ma’am Safira and Axton wonder and showered me with questions as to what had happened to me. Of course I told them the truth that I just had to be in beast mode. When they asked why, I didn’t tell the whole story. I was just pissed at someone, and they never asked again.

As for his gift, at 10 o'clock in the evening after work, I went home first to put it in my room and then I hid as a beast.

At twelve