THE BOY NEXT DOOR-
AFTER Sofia Mendes has to spend the next six months at her Aunt's house, because her barely available mom's business branch has moved to London- Sofia finds that a new family has bought the house next door to her Aunt's.
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Chapter Forty-Eight: The Truth Comes Out (Part One)
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Aunt Em managed to stop the two ladies from whatever argument was bound to happen, by dragging my mother into the downstairs bathroom before another word could escape her mouth.
All of us—excluding my mother and Aunt Em—sat at the beautifully decorated dining table filled with the food and desserts that were cooked from this morning, and some extras Lisa brought from her house.
Aunt Em and my mother were yet to retreat to the kitchen. We sat in comfortable murmur for the last eight minutes, awaiting their arrival so we could eat.
"What the fuck happened back there?" Mason hums under his breath from where he sat beside me on the dining room table. I turn to look at him and the expressional look of concern painted on his face.
Mason dressed nicely today; he wore a long-sleeved grey striped flannel, a plain white tee underneath, washed straight leg jeans, and topped off the outfit with a pair of blue and white Nike Air Jordan 1 Retro shoes.
His soft brown hair was styled in wavy feathers on his head and a spray of freckles heightened the look of attractiveness he held today. I noticed however that Mason's acne has worsened in the slightest since I last saw him, not that it mattered.
He seemed a bit tense today, as well as anxious. Sometimes when I'd talk to him at the dining table he'd blank out for a few seconds then apologise and focus his attention back to me—something I've noticed he does a lot recently. Honestly, the past few weeks he's looked a bit worrisome, or rather stressed.
Something was wrong with him—especially now that I discovered his texts to Kailani. And sooner or later my curiosity would get the best out of me, and find out what Mason was hiding that he couldn't tell me.
I snap my attention back to Mason's hazel eyes that looked dark above his eye bags. "I really don't know. Something's happened between them, I know it." I refer to my mother and Kailani's mom, Mrs. Sommers.
"Obviously. Did you see the look on your mom's face when she opened the door to reveal mine? The look on her face told me she wanted to rip my mother limb from limb." Kailani included herself into Mason and I's conversation, seated on the other side of me as I sat in the middle between her and Mason.
I softly nod my head. "I wonder what's up with them..." I wonder to myself rather than the other two. Kailani hums in agreement.
"I have a gut feeling that this Christmas meal won't end well." She whispers so the adults that sat across us couldn't hear.
"You've got that right. Something is very off with my Mother tonight. I feel it will only be a matter of time before she explodes and ruins my last Christmas with her-" I stop myself before I could talk any further. My eyes wander to Kailani who wore a warning look that read 'what did you just say?'
