Opal – Then
I didn’t know where he was. For three whole days he hadn’t been in his rooms when I went in to clean them. And after weeks of seeing him every day, of sitting on his lap and eating with him every single day, I felt his absence in my heart.
It wasn’t because I was hungry. Because I was. It was something more. Like a part of me was suddenly missing. I didn’t like that feeling one bit.
It wasn’t like I could just sit around and mope though. I had to act like normal. No one knew of my strange friendship with Wren. And he was my friend.
My best friend.
I missed him.
I just couldn’t show it. I had work to do. And one of those jobs was cleaning his room and straightening his belongings. I didn’t snoop, but it was hard. Wren was such a mystery to me, I wanted to know him bette
