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Tsi and I wait nervously for Tanaka outside our building. The guards must sense the mood in the atmosphere because they are more alert right now. I snuggle closer to Tsitsi, for warmth and the assurance that she is still here with me. Tanaka didn't even give me any details, she just started crying and hiccuping I had to hang up so that she could send the location and I would call taxi to go pick her up. I don't know why she didn't ask for me to pick her up myself but Tsitsi said we should do what she asked for.

I am scared.

This waiting is killing me. I have been waiting all my life, I mastered the art of patience but somehow all I keep thinking of is how Tanaka sounded on the phone. She sounded scared, and that's not her. I am sure she doesn't scare easily, she definitely doesn't suffer fools. Linda joins us, dragging on her cigarette.