CHAPTER 117. REGRETS

ONEKA'S POV

“Are you out of your mind? What were you thinking?” Mom screeched, her voice shrill in the air as Athena and I winced at the impact. She can be very loud sometimes. “Who told you to take those stupid decisions without consulting with me first, Oneka?” Shit. Mom never calls me by my real name unless she is extremely angry. She only ever calls me Nikki. I know I shouldn't have crossed the border and did what I did, but it's not like I committed a sin. Why couldn't anyone see things from my point of view?

I glanced at Pi to see him looking at me in silent disappointment and what looked like sadness. This was the first time I was witnessing him so quiet and serious. Otherwise I had always only ever seen him as the playful flirt he was. And I was terribly missing that side of him since the time Athena and I had stepped foot at his place and invited mom over to have our usual meeting. But why was he staring at me like that? There was something so different about his gaze.

“Mo