"Aren't you hungry?" Xavier sat across the dinner table from Vega and I, watching her stare at her food.
"It's delicious," she said, pushing a pea across the plate with her fork.
"I just don't have an appetite."
I, on the other hand, was starving. I had finished the honey-glazed roasted chicken in no time but was still working on the peas and the corn.
"Do you want this?" Vega asked, handing me her bread roll. I nodded and took it out of her hands.
"Does Adam not feed you?" Xavier asked in amusement.
"I didn't eat breakfast," I explained, eating a spoonful of peas.
Vega laughed. "I've never seen you devour peas like that."
I said nothing as I tore off a piece of bread from the roll. Vega was trying to get on my good side, despite having neglected to apologize. It frustrated me th
