Ria's POV.
A sudden silence which was almost deafening crippled every sound in the room and for a moment, I clutched a hand at my chest as I felt my heart pounding against my rib cage. In that fleeting moment when I asked, I thought that something bad was about to happen to him. Who knows? It could have been that something was about to happen to him, actually. Although, I didn't know how it came about but then, telling me that if he slept on the couch, he would get a swollen neck, and it just happened as he said. To me, he appeared a little strange. Besides, how could a mere question make him respond in such manner. If anything, Carlos asked him to come down here, and I was only curious as to how they both met each other. Or wasn't I supposed to know? Or better still, shouldn't I have ask
