*Caterina*
‘What did he just say?’ I asked myself. ‘Love?’
My heart slammed widely inside my chest as though it were fighting to break out.
But my mind needed to back up for a moment.
I know that I was tired. The events of this entire day were enough to send any normal person into a complete tailspin. I should have been asleep hours ago. I should have tried shutting my eyes the moment my mom left my room. Lord knows that I was tired enough.
I really didn’t know what to expect when Elio first knocked on my door, asking to come in and speak with me. I figured, at most, it would just involve some kind of an apology. I recalled the tense expression his features took on when I spoke to him and my mother down in the living room.
I’d said my piece. I didn’t care to talk any further. My head couldn’t possibly have fit any more unwanted information, and all I really wanted was to fall asleep and find a way to move on from it in the morning to come.
