Chapter 79 - It weighed so much that it sank my heart
There is this very awkward silence that follows and in it, I can't bring myself to say a word, at least until Austine speaks.
"At least he is out of our hairs, we can go have dinner now", he says and it is then I realise who exactly is in eachother's ears.
But before I start to deal with my hair that got tangled somehow with Austine's button, I remember what I heard Rolland say.
"The rumours weren't actually rumours, were they? I thought I knew you but I was wrong". His tone condescending.
I remember his eyes too.
They had mockery and contempt in them.
Rollands words sink in, but my heart sinks in even deeper.
That hurt and it feels heavy.
So heavy and attached to my heart.
And the weight is so much that it sinks my he
