Chapter 142

ACHILLES. To say that I’m surprised would be an understatement. My jaw quite literally landed on the floor. It just feels so random but at the same time, it feels like it’s been laid out long before I even got here. I look at Claudia and it’s like she’s seen a ghost. All the enthusiasm has been sucked out of her and now, she just looks like a ghost standing next to me. I wrap an arm around her as a way to assure her, but I don’t think it did anything. I don’t think it helped at all, because she just continues to stare into the distance. I admit that I don’t know them all that well. I just know that Ruth and Henry both refused to come with Claudia when she needed them the most. Nana is the one who blamed her for the death of Max. That’s the extent of my knowledge about them, and I have to say that it’s not really helping me form a proper welcoming mood. Carlos seems to have felt that too, because he shifts in his spot. “So… um, what do I do?” The honest answer is that I don’t know.