Alex
A week passed, and Manic still hadn’t shown. Nora did say it could be up to two weeks.
Regardless, Alex and Nora fell into step. Everything about it felt so familiar. They did this before. There’s no way that things weren’t the way they were now.
And that’s the problem.
She claimed he left. That he left her behind, and the way she saw it, the behavior was a constant. Something had to be wrong if that was the case, because there was no reason why he would just leave Nora. Ever.
It was impossible to let her even go shower. She didn’t accept his offer to hold her hand from outside the curtain while she washed her body.
That was after he just offered to get in with her. She said she still wanted to take things slow. Get to know one another again. Rather, Alex neede
