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53 | “You don’t get it.”
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2023-12-03 13:43:08Three days had gone by since his confrontation with Grandpa Edgar and to say the old man was furious beyond his imagination would be an understatement. The only time Ronin saw him these days was during dinners which Grandpa made sure to have with him.
Apologizing wasn’t exactly Ronin’s strong suit, especially since he wasn’t used to making such jaw-droppingly dumb moves, as he had this time. He knew he screwed up big, that too in capital letters. But was any of this genuinely avoidable? Could the circumstances have been different if he had chosen to open up about his issues rather than keeping them close to his heart?
For some reason, he wasn’t quite sure.
But then again, he wasn’t sure about anything these days.
Just as Grandpa had warned, Ronin had been on lockdown mode ever since he’d been released from the hospital. It was like he was reliving his teenage days when he’d sneak out of the house for late-night
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