51 A Little Lonely

Destia Jayden: February 23rd,20XX

Archer got off the elevator looking shaken, and an unconscious Eva hung off his back like a rag doll. He held her small stuffed whale in his left hand, but his upper arms were tense with exhaustion as he struggled to keep the smaller child on his back.

Kaja reacted first and ran over and try to take Eva off his back, but Archer resisted and stubbornly walked into their shared apartment.

Joyce had suddenly ended the meeting and sent all of us home a few hours ago, but she’d made Archer and Eva stay behind.

It was pretty obvious from the way she and Archer had reacted that Eva had done something, but I didn’t know what it was and I didn’t know if I could ask. We’d only known each other for a few days, so the sense of distance between us was inevitable. But I wished we could get over it sooner rather than later.