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Chapter 30-

Chapter 30-

"You sure you'll be okay?" I asked for the fifth time in a row over the phone as I took a small break from work to talk to Calvin. 

Although Calvin has been going back to live with his mom for almost a good week now, I still couldn't help but worry every time he called me. 

It was 8:45pm and the store was pretty quiet and dead for the most part. Because of the lack of customer, we were all doing our own things. Abby, our team manager, was in the background doing whatever the manager has to do before closing. Anna was on her phone texting away, Simon was counting the money we earned today from the tip and here I was trying not to freak out as Calvin was on the other line as I stared at the time. 

But on the bright side, I only had only half an hour left until I am free and I can go home.

I thank God that Anna offered me to drive me home since I usually start to freak out when I walk home by myself.

"I'm going to be fine Reina. I'm already in front of my house," I heard him from the other line and I couldn't help make feel even more worried and stressed when he said that.

Correction, his house was more like a mansion than an actual house to be honest. But I didn't try to say anything about that even though I knew it was true. But it didn't mean anything if the people in the house are broken anyways. Maybe it would have been better if I didn't let Calvin to go there in the first place but I didn't want to seem overbearingly protective.

He can take care of himself but I couldn't help but worry still.

"You sure you don't want to turn back around?" I said nervously, my thoughts betraying me.

I heard him chuckle on the other line, "Yes Reina I've been going home for a week now and Erik isn't here."

"Okay. Bye," I trail offed, trying to calm myself.

"I'm going to be fine. Tell me when you're home though or else I'm calling the cops," he threatened on the other side of the phone before I hung up, feeling lost.

"You guys are literally adorable," Anna said with a grin on her face as soon as I hung up. I couldn't help but feel shy about the whole situation of others saying anything about our relationship. Although we have been dating for about a week now, it still felt very weird to say out loud. 

I'm still not use to the whole me and Calvin thing going on even though we have been dating for a good week or so now.

The thing being that this whole thing started when he blackmailed me into doing whatever he wanted and then I found out he had an abusive stepdad and now I'm trying my best to think of a way to get him to jail without him actually murdering me.

Yep that thing.

And overall, I didn't like the spotlight on me to begin with.

"That's pretty cute but what about Paul? Weren't you guys, like, a thing at one point? I didn't even realize you guys broke up actually," she pondered out loud.

I mentally groaned in my head.

What's with people bringing him up recently now that I started dating Calvin? Anna had been working her for as long as I did so she know who Paul was at this point.

But I got to give Anna credit for having such a good memory skill though. I remembered I told her one time when we were talking about past relationships but that was it after that. I never brought him up ever again but she still managed to remember.

And yet she managed to remember his name and everything even after almost two years.

"We kind of went our separate ways," I mumbled, not really wanting to touch on that topic.