Book Two: Branch One Hundred and Eleven

"How are you still able to eat?" Aletta asked Joshua who was currently devouring the bigger in front of him.

They had left the meeting and then gotten takeout, they went to a quiet and closed space to eat. Aletta could not understand why he was devouring the bugger so much when he just had fancy steak at the restaurant.

"I could barely eat, she kept staring at me and making inappropriate glances at me I could not keep the food down" he said with a mouthful.

"I can't hear you" she murmured taking a sip of her diet coke.

He took a minute to chew and then took a sip of the sprite to wash it down before he spoke. "She made me uncomfortable so I could not eat. The chef may think that I did not eat that meal because there was something wrong with it" he told her.

"Well, you should be used to it by now, people have always been staring your whole life," she told him popping a fry in her mouth.

"You know, you'd think that I would get used to it but I can not stand people staring at me like I a