*Esmerelda*

I continued to stare at Abner, feeling as if he was speaking a different language. He was acting so strangely all of a sudden. It was as if he had taken a mask off and was showing something else beneath the surface.

He was looking at me with such a somber, serious look. There was a touch of regret in his eyes, which was understandable considering that he was now trapped in the night school after I had asked him to make sure he was out by 8:30.

I laughed once, ...