✽ Mandy ✽
I met Nico after class because I just wanted him to make sure that whatever had been on my phone before hadn’t returned. What I didn’t say aloud was that I worried Jason had done something again. I knew that Nico resetting my phone didn’t mean that the problem had fixed itself. I had this feeling that nothing had changed. Not really. The café was busy, more so than usual, but Nico and I found a spot near the back.
“You look like you didn’t sleep,” he said as we sat down.
“I slept,” I lied. “My brain didn’t,” Nico studied me before he nodded once.
“Phone?” he asked. I slid it across the table.
“Please. Just tell me I’m being paranoid,” I said. I watched as Nico picked it up and went quiet in that focused way he had in the kitchen. He tapped through settings, checked batter
