"You pierced your ears?" Kasteil asked as he walked in.
I froze for a moment. My heart thumped loudly in my chest. I hadn't known how he would react, so I had made sure to come back before him. He had been tied up with work and wouldn't get home until late. He had even told me I could go to sleep instead of waiting, but I couldn't.
I wanted to see his reaction. Would he be annoyed? Disappointed? Would he even notice at all? Or… would he think it looked good? My chest tightened with a strange mix of excitement and fear.
I had never done anything like this before. Not really. The only reason my ears were pierced in the first place was because my mother had done it for me and my brother when we were kids. She had said it was easier then than trying to do it as an adult.
