Branch One Hundred and Eighty

Jessica certainly did not expect that question and was too stunned to answer.

"I am sorry if I offended you. I was just curious" Xavier said in a haste.

"No, it is not that you offended me. It's a question I have never gotten before" he told her.

"Do you want to share?" he asked because it seemed like there was a story behind it.

"Well at first when my mom died she left me with my alcoholic and debt breeding aunt who used up all the insurance money and then she put me in an orphanage home" Jessica began.

She loved how attentive he was and how he looked at her. "Well in the home we were mostly maltreated and our punishment for any misbehavior was us going days without any food," she told him.

She was sure that Xavier had never heard of anything like before. "And then after a while, I grew accustomed to not having food daily which resulted in an eating disorder for me. I had a hard time recovering. That made me take an interest in the cooking line"

"All that happened to you?" Xav