chapter 27

Mateo took me home, I was hoping my parents were home but when we pulled up, their car was gone. Stepping out of the car I mindlink them. “Where are you guys?” “Grocery shopping, what’s up pumpkin?” My dad asks. “I’m at home, came to pick up some things but you weren’t here” “You must have just missed us, the bathroom window is open, you should have told us, we would have waited” my father tells me. “All good, I will break in then” I tell him. “Okay pumpkin” “Dad, you really gotta stop calling me pumpkin” “But that’s your name” “It’s not my name, dad. My name is Katya” I tell him. “But to me, you will always be my pumpkin” he retorts. Internally groan, no use arguing. I am pretty sure if he could he would change my name to it. All this over an incident with a pumpkin when I was a baby. Zoning back into my surroundings, I looked at the house. “So what are we doing?” Mateo asks. “I am breaking in” I tell him before walking around the side of the house to the bathroom window. It was sligh