Chapter 90

Weird Nightmare

Kia

Ares wasn’t able to accompany me for the whole day since he was so busy with work so I decided to do some workloads at home. After having a general cleaning of the house, I decided to go and buy some groceries. My wrists started to ache terribly as I trudged along the hard concrete road. Usually, when I took this route home, I passed all sorts of strange-looking people.

The neighborhood where we lived was strange; everyone was kind, but sometimes too friendly, interfering with your privacy and asking questions about your personal life that you weren’t sure how to respond to. But on this particular night, a muggy night at that, there was not a sound to be heard. Not even the giggle of an elderly guy walking by or the squeal of a tire turning around a corner could be heard. I looked down at the multiple plastic bags I was holding, which were filled with the necessary groceries I had run out to buy at the last minute for supper, while the ache in m