Chapter Twenty Two
For the next forty minutes to one hour that I had to stick around and wait for mum, I lost a battle to restlessness. I was hungry, and even though Jess had offered me mangos some twenty minutes into the wait, I had turned it down on the idea that it would only make me more hungry. It was also strange that there was mango by this time of the year, but I wasn’t going to ask questions since everyone was acting like it was normal. Now that I really think about it, I’m regretting that I had the stupid urge to reject it in the first place, which means I can’t go back to ask for it.
I was trying to be polite, and not come off as... I don’t even know what I was trying to prove. I could have just taken the damn mangoes and gone on my way.
“Mum” I say trying to sound all solem
