Chapter XII

After that day off, Rossie finally rested well. Now she's back to waking up at midnight to go to work. For some reason, she woke up before her alarm could so she turned it off. It had her surprised when out of nowhere, Jake started face-timing her.

For some seconds she stared at it. She never hesitated to answer his calls before but now she is a little. How could she reject the call? She cleared her throat and pressed the green button, and joined in.

"Hi, love!" she greeted with a smile.

"Hi, love. I couldn't get a hold of you today. Mom said you were out with Prim." Of course, her mother would tell him what she does.

"Yes, I was arcading with Prim." Like the expression her mother gave her earlier, Jake's face slowly clouded with disappointment. "She won her poster making. I needed to celebrate with my sister, love."

"You didn't touch our savings, right?" he asked, brows crossed.

"No, of course, I didn't, love." She was suddenly reminded of how Jared was even telling her that buy