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'Lixie-ah, you're worrying me. Are you okay? Do you want me to get you something, hmm? Shall we go back?'
Felix turned away after staring at the apartment building for a few minutes, he sighed, shaky hands holding onto Pixie who curled up against his chest, hiding away in his jacket,
He shook his head, wanting to speak and yet he couldn't make a single word out. Rather his gaze dropped to the crystal glowing around his neck,
'It'll w-work right?'-he asked, eyes looking up at his mother who found her son adorable despite knowing just how scared he was, blame it on the way his eyes shined with the glossiness in them and the way his lips puckered making him look like a sad puppy,
She nodded with a soft smile, masking away her own worry,
She was here either way, what could go wrong?
She held out a palm for her son to hold, before kissing the side of his head,
'It'll be alright. I promise you. If anything seems out of order, we'll just go back, hmm?'
Felix nodded, knowing he was going to try his best to stay here no matter the situation. He knew his mother needed this job, and he knew where she worked before, she wasn't treated right. The town they lived in for all these years isolated them and stared at them like they were some sort of creature. Felix hadn't gone out of his house for months, he studied at home, took classes online, his mother tutored him whenever he found something difficult, cooked, ate, and spent all his time at their two-roomed house all by himself.
But it wasn't going to be the case now. Yes, he could still take classes online but he was now out in a city, having passed by seeing loads of people none of whom batted an eye,
Yes, their car was pretty old but it worked just fine. His mother owned it, her first-ever car and he knew how connected she was to the vehicle as well.
Leaving behind the town was something neither of them had hoped and yet now that they were out and about in a city, staring at the apartment where his mother's friend lived, where they were supposed to start a livelihood, it was scary.
To Felix, it was like being put in a whole different world, of whose tactics he knew nothing.
He stared at his mother, glancing at her before looking away and out of the window at people passing by,
She had asked the guards for entry, gotten a pass, and connected with his friend over chat who gave her the directions in the apartment complex to which building she lived and which flat she owned.
As his mother drove down to the basement, Felix undid the seat belt finding it suddenly too tight.
His mother was quick to notice and hold his palm, her warm fingers over his now suddenly cold skin feeling somehow comforting,
