*Esmerelda*
I continued to stare at Abner, feeling as if he was speaking a different language. He was acting so strangely all of a sudden. It was as if he had taken a mask off and was showing something else beneath the surface.
He was looking at me with such a somber, serious look. There was a touch of regret in his eyes, which was understandable considering that he was now trapped in the night school after I had asked him to make sure he was out by 8:30.
I laughed once, a humorless laugh that sounded nervous to my own ears. “What do you mean that your only reason for coming here was the night school?" I asked in dismay. “What do you plan to do now that you're trapped in here illegally?"
This fact didn't seem to bother him in the slightest. I thought that he should at least be a little
