Chapter 10

I walked up to our room with Zander and all I could focus on was the smell of the pizza he had. Once we got to our room we sat down and he offered me to take a slice, ot was so good and the cheese and spices and toppings just melted in my mouth. We sat there in silence for a few minutes until Zander handed me a small box. I looked at it and gasped. It was a phone! I looked at him with surprise and all he said was that he would need a way to contact me if he was away in business. I stared at the box and it said samsung s22. I couldn't believe it because I had never gotten anything so new before.

" I can't have something so expensive." I told Zander.

"It wasn't that much and you need a phone so that I can be in contact with you should something happen. Ot has alreadybeenset up and is on my plan and I already have your new number and I put my number in it for you already." He replied.

"Thank you I really appreciate it." I said feeling overwhelmed by his generosity.

I took the phone out and it had a yellow case on it, I turned it on and went through it for a few minutes.

"You should eat more before you get to distracted by it." Zander said playfully.

I looked at him in surprise because nobody ever told me to eat more for fear that they would be scolded by my parents. Not even my siblings would.

"I'm full already I ate too much to still be hungry." I said with regret because the pizza just smelled amazing but I didn't want to risk being told I'm earing too much.

"How can you be too full? You only had one slice of pizza! Zander said.

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I wasn't sure what I could tell him, I couldn't exactly tell him how my family treated me and would only feed me enough to stay alive. So I did what I could think of in the moment.

"I usually don't eat much at night or else I have indigestion and feel sick all night." I say not looking at him.

All Zander does is look at me with a look I can't decipher and gets up to put the box of left over pizza in the tiny fridge in the room.

"Its late and we should sleep, we have a lot to do tomorrow." He says getting in bed.

I look at him sheepishly and I'm not sure what to do. I tell him I have to get ready for bed and head to the bathroom attached to the small room. I go into the bathroom and I brush my teeth and hair and put my pajamas on, there just simple cotton ones because they are the only thing I have to sleep in. I'm done so I step put and see Zander already asleep so I shut the light off and walk over to the bed and get in. The bed is big enough that we won't touch if we don't move along in the night. I lay down and can hear Zander breathing slow and soft and soon am asleep as well.