“You must be joking.” I scoffed. What an absurd thing to say. I have decided to keep you. Being likened to a cat did not make me his little kitten but I held my tongue. His moods were unpredictable but with the way he moved then, with disturbing calmness, I did not dare speak out of turn.
“I assure you, I am not.” He said it with such finality, like I had no say in the matter of who kept me. What did he even mean by that!?
“You know it does not work like that,” I muttered. I knew he could hear me but in response, I got silence. I twiddled my thumb like a little girl while he left me standing there. Something occurred to me so I followed him but as I made the move to leave the room, he poked his head back in, hair falling to his shoulders.
“You go where I go.” I nodded, picking up my p
