Nepenthe • Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.
Never feeling like they belonged was a feeling that Lissa Dragomir lived with, even with her family and life long best friend, although they aided in that feeling not being so strong...
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Unlike every other night, in which dinner was filled with jovial conversation, the dinner that evening was only filled with small talk. Any attempts, from Jeremy, to ask about Lissa's background were thrown put the window when Lissa frowned at the question and gave small answers with no information.
In Jeremy's eyes, even the tight-lipped Kate gave him more information when she arrived.
Because of there being very little conversation during dinner, it went by extremely quickly, more so than when Jeremy had exams to study for and all but inhaled his food so that he could return to his studies, or when Kate was having a bad time and served small portions.
It wasn't that Lissa didn't see the looks that Kate shared with Jeremy when she dodged the questions in a terrible way, but it was simply that it was too hard for her to talk about how she lost everyone that she cared for so recently.
After dinner, Jeremy offered to do the dishes, which allowed Lissa to retreat into her new shared room while Kate tidied up the kitchen table. "Did she tell you anything about herself before I arrived?" Jeremy questioned gently as she washed the plates, it was no use using the dishwasher with so little silverware used.
"Not really, exchanged pleasantries, told her where the internet password and the first aid kits were, asked her which year in high school she was going to and if she had already enrolled." Kate told him, walking next to him to the cabinet that held the trashcan and throwing out the used napkins.
"Why do I feel like there is something that you aren't telling me." Jeremy pressed, raising a brow as he looked down at Kate.
Kate gave him her sweet smile, the kind of smile that was genuine but showed that she was indeed witholding information from him, which make Jeremy sigh and tell her "I won't push, just don't go closing yourself off as well now that you have a roommate."
Kate let out a laugh before patting Jeremy on the shoulder and giving a teasing smile before heading into her shared room.
Jeremy was right, as despite being used to change due to the broken foster system, once Kate had a routine, she did not deal well with new things and changes. And having a roommate was indeed a break from the norm that Kate had grown used to in the past 3 months.
Inside the bedroom was Lissa, sitting on her bed with a set of almost oversized pyjamas that hung strangely off her body, her hair was pulled up into a bun looking as if she had just thrown her hair up rather than neatly pulling her hair while brushing it up.
