REINA
After my chat with Tessa earlier, she had to rush to another class, so we didn’t get to hang out for long. I figured I’d use the free time to check out my new apartment—the one Paolo had just bought for me.
True to Calestino's words, it was just a few minutes walk away from school. The apartment was beautiful, I won’t lie. But it felt strange. Too big, too quiet, too… much. The kind of place that looked like it belonged in a magazine, not real life.
I walked around for a while, touching things carefully like they might break, and couldn’t shake off the guilt sitting in my chest. Even the car parked outside looked ridiculous. It could probably buy my entire closet twice over.
I didn’t last long there. The silence made me restless. So when Tessa called later to say her last class
