Chapter Thirty Seven

JENNY’S POV

Dining was going on smoothly. I could successfully hide the whole swirl of emotions that was going through me from the previous breakdown that I had almost had inside the closet of my room but with all of them around me as we ate, the way they laughed and joked around, I felt more at ease and I was able to focus on the moment along with them too… until I was going to return to my room for the night and then I would have to face the ugly truth which was, that I was leaving at night the next day to follow.

Remembering that, I just stabbed my fork into the steak that laid in front of me and I stared at it for a while, almost forgetting myself and also not hearing Rita call for me repeatedly.

Suddenly, I felt hands on my thigh and I flinched with a gasp before I raised my head to see it was Rita and she was staring at me like I had grown two heads. I looked around the table and they were all staring at me too… only that I didn’t know why.

“Is something wrong? Did something hap