My heart is beating incredibly fast and I am at loss for what to say.
“I-I just told you the flo-”
“No, no.” He shakes his smiling in a playful way. “I don’t want to have to prosecute you but you’re lies are making it harder for me miss.”
I look around and mentally ramble for a way out because he was proving far more in tune than I expected.
“The truth?” He leans in close once more.
“I’m suffocated.” I blurt. “The place is huge but there’s no life in it, I’m confined to doing nothing in my rooms for two weeks when I could’ve been with my friends back at school. The place makes me feel so isolated and I just needed some fresh air, please don’t tell anybody.” I squeaked.
His expression changed and he momentarily stepped backwards, briefly taken aback by what I had confessed.
“The gran
