Kissing My Roommate

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Emma’s POV

I woke up before six am and said my morning prayers. It’s a thing that has been drilled into us from childhood.

After my prayers, I felt hungry and decided to go downstairs to the kitchen to get something to eat. It’s Sunday today, but knowing my father he doesn’t go to church, I just hope he’ll be up early enough so I can wrap up what I came here for and head home. I’m already tired of this place and can’t most definitely stand Avery no matter what.

I had just finished pouring cereal into a bowl of milk and settling down to eat it when I heard movements at the kitchen door. I sighed and prayed for everything that it’s not Avery coming for an early morning snack like all pregnant women do.

The lights suddenly came on and I couldn’t resist rolling my eyes, fortunately it was just my dad.

“Emma darling, you’re up?”

“Yes, I woke up early and feeling hungry. Good morning”, I greeted him.

“Good morning sweetie, hope you slept fine?” He took a bottle of water from the fridge and opened the cap downing it.

“My night was okay, I slept okay”, I shrugged in response to him.

“Okay, that’s good”, he replaced the cap back on the bottle and dropped it on the table and then he pulled a chair out and sat down at the table. I continued with eating and watching him silently.

“I guess we have to talk”, he finally broke the silence after we had silently looked at ourselves for a minute.

I shrugged, “I’m still eating dad”.

“Oh, okay I’m sorry. Finish up”.

“Thank you”.

I quickly finished eating and took the bowl to the sink, rinsed it and placed it in the dishwasher. Then I got back to the table and sat down.

“Emma”, my dad called me.

“Yes?”

“I have to be real with you, the way you spoke to Avery yesterday was not called for. I don’t like it”.

“How about how she was on my case?”

“She was trying to be friendly”.

“Doesn’t seem so to me”, I retorted.

“You’re in my house, you have to respect her as my partner as long as you’re here”.

“Well good thing I’m here after almost a year now and it’s not hard to avoid here for more than that. I think I made the bad decision to come here seeing that you never try to reciprocate our visits”, I was getting really pissed already but I tried to check my emotions in like I always do.