Chapter 32 Mixed Signals

ALMOST a week had gone by without Cara and I talking. I know she peeks at me in my room whenever she gets home, but I always pretend to be asleep.

I can lock my door, but I can't figure out why I don't do it. Every night, it takes me until dawn to watch k dramas. I do that purposefully so I would wake up late and get the alibi not to join Cara for breakfast.

Sometimes, Eroz, Zammy, and I hung out together. Because that was the only chance for Craig and Eroz to meet, as the days passed, the inexplicable feeling I had for Cara was overwhelming, and I couldn't even think about Craig anymore.

Maybe I've moved on from Craig somehow, and I can say that we're friends now than we used to be, just acquaintances and connected under the circumstances of being married.

We seem closer than him to his sister. Cara is always out, and I don't even bother to ask or to know anymore.

"Daphne." I suddenly stopped going down the stairs. I thought she had already left the house because it was one in the