What people don't know

Chapter 88

I help him clean up the pieces of the bowl he dropped, then i grab two new bowls and we pour in some cereals and milk and sit down at the table. "But uh Elle, how is Corbs? You were a bit vague yesterday" Daniel says and i look up from my bowl, "Well i don't know if i said this but he has cancer, leukemia to be precise" I say and i immediately feel my eyes getting watery. I try to blink my tears away but i'm not really succeeding. Daniel grabs my hand and i don't pull away, I kinda like it. It makes me calm down, after a minute or so i've pulled myself back together and i quietly continue my bowl with cereals. Daniel doesn't ask me any other questions bout my family, now he asks me bout my apartment. "Why wasn't there any electricity?" he asks, I get up from the chair and i clean both of our bowls, "I don't have enough money for that.." I say ashamed and i look at the ground. "Why didn't you tell me? I could've helped you!" Daniel says and i weakly smile, "If i talked to you and your mom found out i would be dead remember?" I say he also smiles, "Oh yeah, forgot about that. So uh just to be clear, I didn't do anything stupid or something which made you hate me?" he asks and i look back up at him. He's looking really anxious right now, "No you didn't do anything, the hard thing was that you just kept being nice to me, you are too good for this world" I say and I smile at him. Daniel smiles back at me, "Well let's go" he says while he throws his car keys at me, I quickly catch them and we walk to his car while joking around.

When we arrive at his car we both get in, "So where are we going?" he asks while he turns off the radio, I start the car, "To my hometown" I say. I am bringing him to the house where it all happened, to the grave of my mom and the grave of my dad who i killed. I've never been back at the house since it happened so it's gonna be emotional for sure. Without realizing it i go over my little scars with my finger, "Your hometown?" Daniel asks confused. "Yep my hometown, that's where it happened" I say and Daniel nods.

When we are halfway there we need to gas up the car cause it's almost completely empty, when i want to get out to pay Daniel grabs my wrist. "It's my car, I pay" he says and he quickly gets out the car and pays for the gas. I just smile and shake my head, I grab my phone out of my pocket and i try to turn it on, maybe it's just dead? I haven't charged it since yesterday night, I grab the charger Daniel has in his car and i attach my phone to it. Now i just have to pray that my phone turns back on. Daniel gets back in the car with two bags of chips in his hands, "Sorry couldn't resist it" he says and he throws one of them to me, I catch it and i look at it, "Oeehh cheese nachos from doritos, I like" I say and i open the bag, Daniel laughs and we start eating the chips, I just keep looking at my phone in the hope that it turned on. "Is something wrong?" Daniel says while he puts a chip in his mouth, "My phone just doesn't want to turn on" I say, Daniel grabs my phone and he looks at it. "It's probably just dead, don't worry it'll turn back on" he says and he smiles at me, I smile back but on the inside i'm really worried. I can't afford a new phone! I can't even pay the electricity bills! When we both finished out chips i start the car again and we continue our road trip to my hometown, am I really ready to tell him everything?