Chapter 22

The journey to school was the most soothing and exhilarating in a long while; her father sat behind the steering wheel.

He introduced an old game of theirs that consisted of guessing either a fruit or an animal with the opponent's given letter within a given time. Preferably within seconds.

With Gianna leading, Petra promised to surpass her sister during their next encounter before walking out of the car.

Finally alone with her father, Gianna took the little pause between them to ponder on the previous day. She would've loved to play the binding referee as soon as possible had it been Adam was in school.

He alerted neither her nor Mimie about his absence. And when they made time to reach him, they kept falling into the answering machine. Mimie who had promised to check up on him in person returned with feedback from his auntie that he had traveled on short notice and will be back the next day.

She was officially going to be sixteen on Saturday and she wondered how things will un