DYLAN’S POV After telling Laila about what my father said and how he behaved after I asked him questions, she started behaving strangely towards me. She wouldn’t let me touch her the whole night, and whenever I leaned in for a kiss, she would look away. At first, I thought maybe it was the stress that was getting to her, but I was beginning to think that maybe there was more to this. She had seemingly switched on me in a split second, and I couldn’t figure out what could have brought on this behavior from her When we woke up the following morning, she told me that she would go with me downstairs to get our food because she didn’t want to feel like she was hiding in the bedroom anymore. I was against this idea because my mom was usually in the kitchen in the morning, but I decided to all

