dmired what to him is the most

rudence. "I, I was just trying to tell you that

only covered her front and

ies flushed wit

more, embarrassed by such a re

utters to himself as he walks to th

g of emotion, he has see

attractive after all"

from Central Park, he would never

ght home, Ayden has had a speci

e sees the dining room table with diffe

it's different dishes it's a little of everything," he warns, and a cal

it of normalcy in her life, asks for hi

city of their skin touching. All the way he apologized. But one th

other, who follows her with his eyes. She feels overwhelmed by his presence, but not af

ng to Mark, she hands t

?" he

months of internship I have left," she explains. "Which reminds me, I don't ha

me of her personal or school things, b

's part of this whole circus that you're here," he assures her cautiously

curiously. She walks to the dining room and begins to help herself to food. "You don't have many pictures

tter eat" he says, cutting the conversation short. "If you wan

e until they each retire to rest. Admittedly

to leave, he takes her to a mall where

ores there. Arya excitedly scours the mall searching for the right shoes for hours on her feet in th

s to test the pulse of the sales clerk, Ayden who, despe

pressure while checking that new gadget on her r

e restaurant, nor the fearful young woman who was trembling on the gurney this mornin

lry store when her new phone rings. It's odd, as

," he

hurn. Fear washes over her and a shiver runs down h

n is concerned to see her so overwhelmed, he beckons to

a loud laugh. "Always asking stupi

stole my scholarship, don't you

now you're playing surrogate mother, if you don't give me what I want I'll tell my mother, your unive

up with such nonsense?" she contra

hearing him, she doesn't understan

where it all dies," he warns again. "If you don't, I assure you

leaving her g

er, but this time she felt he wasn't kidding. Two things among everything he said are what catch her attention, the first is that he blames her

Ayden confusingly. "