"What? You want to say something?" Candy asked when she noticed how Matt who was seated on the couch kept following her with his gaze as though he was waiting for her to pause so that he could say something.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Matt asked after struggling within himself for most of the night till that morning. He had passed the night on the couch and had barely been able to sleep.
"I'm not sure I follow what you're saying," Candy said in confusion as she looked at him, waiting for him to explain himself.
They were alone in the house since Jamal had left for school that school and Brandy had left the house as usual in their bid to act like everything was normal so that no one would notice that anything was out of place. They had agreed that Matt would send someone to pick Jamal up before the close of school without revealing their identity, and Jamal was simply to tell his teachers that the person was his relative once the person mentioned Matt's name.
