29 Sister (1/2)

Leisurely stepping out of the car, Ensen stretched his arms wide and let out a slight yawn before heading towards the elevator. While walking towards he saw the old lady that had previously stared at him intently for carrying all of his grocery bags in at once. Turning his gaze away, Ensen soon passed her and rode the elevator up towards his floor.

Walking towards the apartment, he quickly arrived without any interruptions and unlocked the door, Entering it and taking off his jacket and shoes before slowly walking towards his bedroom. It had been a long few days for Ensen, all the driving and picking up resources was not exactly exhilarating.

To be blunt, he was beyond bored the past few days. The only thing that saved some of his sanity was the fact that the rental van had a surprisingly good audio system for listening to music.

Although he also tried listening to podcasts, he noticed that he couldn't focus well on driving if he did that. So to be safe, he resorted to just listening to music.

Arriving in front of the bed, Ensen threw himself on top of the blankets. Not bothering to change clothes, he quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone, resting it on his nearby end table.

Realizing that his throat was getting rather dry, Ensen laid there for a few moments before he forced himself up and walked to the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water. Quickly chugging the glass, Ensen refilled the same glass and returned to bed, eager to have some rest.

Quickly closing his eyes, Ensen could not wait to fall asleep. After a few minutes of trying to relax, he had begun to drift away when he heard a sound.

Opening his eyes, he moved his gaze towards his vibrating phone. Ensen rolled over and tried to lay back down to ignore it, but it made such a loud noise that he simply could not ignore it anymore.

Turning around again, he grabbed his phone and looked at the caller ID. Noticing it was an unknown number, Ensen did not think much of it, assuming it to be a telemarketer and quickly declined the call before laying back in bed satisfied with himself.

But the caller didn't give up that easily. A few moments later the phone began to vibrate again. Ensen swore that it vibrated even more aggressively the second time around. With an irritated expression, Ensen quickly raised his finger to decline the call again before having a quick change of heart and deciding to answer.

Although he thought that this call was nothing important, he needed to get into the habit of answering calls. After all, he was soon to be a principal.

Trying to calm himself down, Ensen slowly answered the phone and raised it towards his ear.

”Hello, who's this?' Ensen said bluntly. Although he was doing his best to be nice, he was tired and annoyed by both the system and the caller.

”Oh, I'm sorry Ensen did I disturb you?” A mature and delicate woman's voice answered back.

Looking at this phone with an expression mixed with shock and hesitation, he correctly assumed that she had changed phones over the last time she called. Ensen slowly responded while trying to calm himself down.

”It's been a long time since we talked sis. Why are you calling me?” Ensen said in a passive-aggressive tone. Although the two of them used to be very close as kids, they had gradually grown apart due to an incident a few years prior.

Although it affected their relationship, they both agreed to put aside their differences if her daughter Ada was involved. After all, he didn't want to make her child suffer from the relationship between them, it was only fair.

While he was a teacher at SilverLeaf Academy, he had done his best to assist Ada to the point where she had become increasingly confident in her studies. Although a side effect of this was that she had become attached to Ensen which left him in an awkward position since she was curious as to why her mother and Ensen didn't talk anymore.

”I know I shouldn't be calling… but Ada told me you were fired a few weeks ago. I want to invite you over for dinner tomorrow. Please, just think about it okay?” She said with a sad tone of voice.

Ensen stayed silent for the next few moments in deep thought. He was truly conflicted about seeing her. However from what he could tell she was worried about him.

”Okay Julia, I will think about it. But no promises, I may be busy.” Ensen said, making himself an excuse just in case he didn't want to go tomorrow.