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Chapter Four: The Outsider
Pellina sighed as she ate her meal around the table. Noone had been talking, not a single word. Chiana looked guilty, D' Argo looked suspicious and Jothee looked as uncomfortable in the situation as she felt.
She had the feeling that she had interrupted something between Jothee and D' Argo when she had walked in before. He was being the strangest that she had known him to be. Before arriving he had been pleased, excited and nervous. Now he was just being scary, withdrawn and well, strange. Pellina was ready to bet that it was something to do with that girl who lived here. He had acted suspiciously when he saw her and now refused to look at her properly. D' Argo had said that he didn't know if it was his or her fault that Jothee had wanted to leave but Pellina was sure that it was the later.
She had a right to know what was going on. Everyone else seemed to. She could sense it. There was something that she wasn't being told. She had relayed the information that Jothee wanted to leave under the impression that she would find out what had been bothering him.
It felt horrible to be the outsider.
She never really knew much about what happened on Moya. She had only been given a brief introduction about the characters. Jothee was very secretive with his past towards her. He rarely talked about his life with his mother and father because he didn't remember it. He rarely talked about his life in hiding because he said that he didn't want to remember it. He rarely talked about being a slave because he didn't think she would really want to have heard about it if she heard about it. He rarely talked about his brief time on Moya because he said there was nothing interesting or at all in the slightest relevant that would affect their lives. He rarely talked about anything that happened between leaving Moya and meeting her because he said that there was nothing really to tell and all he had done was think, sleep, eat, move about and meet her.
Sometimes Pellina was surprising that he had even bothered to tell her his name.
"So... Urrm... Nice... Food D' Argo." She stuttered, trying to break the tension that had befallen the table quite a while ago.
"You were the one who made it properly. It doesn't take anyone special to grow vegetables but it does to cook them. You did wonderfully."
"Mmmhmm." Chiana hummed at her while eating and trying to fix on the gaze of Pellina's boyfriend. She wasn't going to get angry though. That tralk should realize that Jothee obviously didn't want anything to do with her.
"Don't put yourself down father. You are someone special." Pellina saw him catch Chiana's gaze for a split second.
"Yeah D' Argo. You are."
After that noone talked during the rest of the meal.
A/N: The next chapter will focus on D' Argo again.