Saturday, October 29, 2022
Demien's Apartment, Bergamo
11:47 PM
The apartment was quiet except for the faint hum of traffic outside, and Demien sat on the couch with his phone face-down on the coffee table while the television played some late-night Italian talk show with the volume low enough to be background noise rather than actual entertainment.
Sophia sat beside him with her legs tucked beneath her and her own phone in hand, and she scrolled through something with calm focus while the screen's glow lit her face in soft blue-white tones, and occasionally she smiled at whatever she was reading though she didn't share it aloud.
"You already saw the posts," Demien said finally, and it wasn't a question because her lack of reaction throughout the evening had made that obvious.
