I had spent most of the day in my room and was now craving some fresh air. I had been staring at my laptop for hours, looking at stocks and running calculations on the probability of values going up or down. I had also spent hours making a lot of arbitrage trades. But now, I was sitting on a branch in a tree overlooking the south part of the village. A few miles away on the path I could see Colin and Matthew, walking in the direction of Colin’s house. I felt the pull towards Matthew and had to stop myself from jumping down and run to him. He had been acting like a child, leaving when he got mad instead of talking to me about it, and I was retaliating by acting just as childish and ignoring him until he apologized. I couldn’t help how I felt, even though I was embarrassed by the way I was

