VOCI (On Hold)

Entry 13

Hide, No Seek

Few days passed.

I successfully avoided Nicolas. For what reason?

Being weird. After what happened before, I thought he'll get angry at me but it was the opposite.

The next morning, Nadia and I were eating breakfast when we heard Nicolas get out of his room. He sat across me but I avoided looking at him.

"Dio! What happened in your eye, Nicolas?", Nadia said.

I looked at Nicolas and saw a big black bruise in his left eye. I guess, I punched him too strong.

"Oh this, maybe I bumped somewhere last night.", he said.

But what's surprising was his good mood that morning. He talked and laughed a lot, like it was nothing.

We finished eating and I volunteered to wash the dishes. I thought I was alone but I heard Nicolas.

"Hi.", he said. I smiled.

"Do you want me to help you?"

"No.", I replied.

"Anything I can help with."

I shook my head.

"Let's talk about something then.", he leaned on the sink next to me.

Get to the point! I said to myself.

"Why?", I asked

"Hm? What do you mean, why?"

"Why do you act as if nothing happened last night?"

"Did something happened?", he said innocently.

"Don't play dumb, you know what I'm talking about."

He chuckled, "Well, I'm too drunk to remember things."

"You're weird.", I said.

His weirdness didn't stop from there.

After that talked, he always followed me around. Talking nonsense even though I'm not interested. He would visit me at my work in office hours. He even treated me some free lunch but I could smell something suspicious in him.

That's why I avoid him up until now. Whether it's in the office, the house or outside, my protocol would be to hide from him.