Chapter 21: Brat

I wasn't planning to tell Khein where I was actually living, but then I had already agreed on letting him drop me off at my house. I was so stupid. I didn't think of it and just impulsively agreed with it. I feel like crying at my dumbness, omg.

"So, uh... thanks?" I said after the three long awkward moments of sitting in the car after we stopped right at the side corner of the street a few distance from the place I was living.

"Do you really live here?" he asked, his voice was void of any emotions. I grimaced and couldn't help but to feel a bit ashamed. I mean, he grew up privileged, so do I, but I was able to adjust immediately of living amongst the slums due to the fact that I often went to different raids our underground business does. Blending in society isn't much of a deal for me. But it varies to different people, of course.

"I do," I replied.

"And you lived alone?" he added before turning his head on me.

I shook my head. Of course I wasn't living alone. I have my cat waiting