7
Honi couldn’t sit still. First his foot tapped out an irregular rhythm until Adi shot him an irritated glance. Then he jumped up and paced several times around the kitchen. He couldn’t stop thinking about last night. Even though he knew his parents would be cool eventually, he’d been as shaken by last night’s reception. He had mulled it over again and again, but couldn’t understand why his father had been so rude to his girlfriend.
He knew the elders weren’t impressed with the way he’d dropped his studies, but why would they blame her? It made no sense. Not after John had explained to them what had happened. Not only had it not been his fault, but there was no way he would get into law school now after ending up in hospital from accidentally taking a drug overdose.
“Let’s go outside,”
