Chapter 41

Elias POV

Knock knock, at our front door, I freeze, mid way through towel drying my hair. 'Hu, wonder who that could be?' Thinking to myself, dropping my towel into the hamper, then calling out to Chilli, who's finishing up in the shower,

"I'll get it!" Then, "coming!" To whoever is at the door, as I glance at the time, it's late, and because of that my parents are the last people I expected to be knocking on my door at eleven o'clock at night. "Hi?" I say, well sort of ask, confused by their presence.

"Hey son," father speaks first, "sorry to intrude at this hour, we're not disturbing anything are we?" Silence and stillness falls over me, till the sound of the shower shutting off snaps me back to reality.

"Hu? No, no, of course not." Opening the door wider, gesturing for them to enter, inviting them in. "Is everything okay?" Closing the door behind them.

"Everything is fine, sorry. We just wanted to check in on the both of you, see how today went. Where's Chilli?"

"Just getting ou