Sixteen
It was a gloomy day in the Corentine house. The weather had turned, like it did every so often, and the rain was pouring down. It was a nice sound when I was sat cosily inside, but I couldn’t really enjoy it.
Not after my spat with Derek last night.
Now that I had cooled down a little, I could see how I might’ve have overreacted, but he hadn’t worded his things that well either.
I took a sip from my dark coffee, not able to really enjoy the roasted flavours. Great. Good to know that a bad date could even spoil my favourite drink.
“Is everything as you wish, Lucy?” Mika asked, sitting at her chair a safe distance away.
“Fine,” I mumbled back. I wasn’t fine, but that wasn’t her business.
She shuffled back and forth. “Can I get you anything?”
“No, thank you.”
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