For a long moment, I sat there in silence, the phone still clutched in my hand. In the past, she’d berate me for calling too much, for interrupting her precious time. Now that I didn’t call, she found a reason to be angry anyway. No matter what I did, I was wrong.
As the sky outside darkened, Sacha finally returned. She staggered through the door with a shopping bag dangling from her hand, clearly drunk. Her eyes then landed on me sitting on the couch as I watched TV, and without a word, she plopped down beside me with a smug smile playing on her lips.
She opened the shopping bag with deliberate flair, pulling out a box and showing off the label. It was the PS5 I had been dreaming about for weeks.
Errol's POV
Sacha was eyeing me, seemingly waiting for me to say something first. But when all she got was a sideways glance at the PS5, she couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Errol, I bought you a PS5!" she exclaimed, her voice laced with forced enthusiasm. "Didn’t you want to play that Fortnite game? Now you can stay home and rest your leg for the next few days. I don’t want you limping around at our engagement party, or my friends will laugh at us."