chapter 54

Sage Lunch with Kat and her family is so nice that I don’t want to leave. It feels so good to have another female around, someone I can relate to. Derrick, Andrei’s father, said he will come over tomorrow sometime to help Andrei with whatever Andrei asked him, and after that brief conversation, eventually, we have to leave. Once we approach Andrei’s car, I climb in the passenger seat, and Andrei gets in the driver's seat and starts up the car. “Seat belt,” Andrei growls, making me realize I haven’t put it on. I roll my eyes but clip it in place, and he reverses before turning the car around and drives down the long driveway. When we reach the end, instead of turning toward the highway, he turns, heading into town. I look at him questionably, wondering what is going on in his mind and where he is planning to take me now. As much as I don’t want to leave Kat’s, I kind of miss home. Although for the most part, I address the place as Andrei’s house, slowly, it’s growing on me and as more d