SCARLET
This wasn’t a vacation. It was a week of torture. It had only been three freaking days, and I’d gone crazy.
Just like yesterday, I didn’t do anything at all. I had no energy to go out. Mom and Thomas didn’t seem to care that I was in the room all day, and it was already afternoon! To entertain myself, I checked my inbox to see if there were any new messages, but Jax seemed busy. There were only three people in the world I could talk to, my roommate Katherine, her boyfriend Nate, and Jax. But they would be busy with their own lives.
Jax would be having a meeting today, and I hadn’t heard his voice lately. Katherine had gone home with Nate, so they were surely busy.
Almost after dinner, I found Mom and Thomas in the living room, watching some TV.
“Hi. Can we talk?”
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