All Chapters of Reborn Before The Apocalypse: Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
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CHAPTER 11: BUSINESS AS USUAL
Lilly was still up when I walked through the door. She was hunched over the kitchen table, thumbing through her phone, not even bothering to look up as I entered."Where'd you go?" she asked. Her voice was flat, the kind of question asked out of habit rather than actual interest."Just driving." I set my keys on the counter. "Needed some air after last night.""Mm." She didn't stop scrolling. "Kyle’s losing his mind. He says he’s never seen anything like that thing before.""Are you okay?" I asked.She finally lifted her gaze, but there wasn't a trace of guilt in her eyes. Instead, she looked mildly irritated, as if my question was a nuisance interrupting something far more important."I'm fine, Jayden. It's over." She turned her attention back to her screen. "You don't need to hover."I stood there for a moment, just watching her, letting Truth Sight do what it always did without me even having to trigger it.[Truth Sight: Active.][Subject: Lilly Grant][Primary Emotion: Annoyance]
CHAPTER 12: CONVENIENT
"You're doing it again."I looked up from my plate. Kyle was watching me over the top of his burger, looking amused, like I was some kind of novelty he'd just caught performing a trick."Doing what?""That thing where you disappear into your own head." He gestured vaguely toward my face with a fry. "Zoning out. You've been doing it for days now.""Sorry." I forced out a small, easy laugh, the kind that sounds apologetic but doesn't mean a thing. "It's just been a long week.""Every week is a long week for you," he said. He wasn't being mean, exactly, but he wasn't being kind either. It was more like he was noting a defect in a piece of property he owned. "You need a hobby, man. Something that isn't just work and constantly worrying about the rest of us." The rest of us. As if I were part of his staff. As if my entire role in his life had been whittled down to a chore he checked on occasionally, like making sure a smoke detector still had fresh batteries."Maybe," I said.He grinned, l