ALMOST a week had gone by without Cara and me talking. I know she peeks at me in my room whenever she gets home, but I always pretend to be asleep. I can lock my door, but I can't figure out why I don't do it. Every night, it takes me until dawn to finish watching K-dramas. I do that deliberately so I can wake up late and get an alibi not to join Cara for breakfast. Sometimes, Eroz, Zammy, and I hung out together. Because that was the only chance for Craig and Eroz to meet, as the days passed, the inexplicable feeling I had for Cara was overwhelming, and I couldn't even think about Craig anymore. Maybe I've moved on from Craig somehow, and we're friends now, not just acquaintances, connected under the circumstances of being married. We seem closer to his sister than he is. Cara is always out, and I don't even bother to ask or to know anymore. "Daphne." I suddenly stopped going down the stairs. I thought she had already left the house because it was one in the afternoon. "Do y
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