Chapter 10

Sighing again, she turned to look at him. “Can I go outside?”

“This again? Celeste go to sleep…”

“I don’t want to sleep, I tried…I just can’t…”

“Do you feel better then?”

Celeste shook her head.

“Then no.” He sat up, throwing an arm over her shoulder and pulling her against his chest. “I don’t understand the pattern of this thing though…the first time you fell ill was the night after I brought you here and it lasted for a whole week… I thought that it was because you were new to the environment and perhaps it was. Two weeks after, it happened again and it lasted for just two days, I understood why though, I had forced you to eat even though you didn’t want to, but what’s the explanation now… It is because you’re…you…”

“Because I what?”

“Because you ate late or probably because you ate something bad…I should scold whoever made you food, or probably I should scold you for eating it.”

“I-I didn’t…I just…” She peeked up at him. “Don’t.”