CAUTION: Chapter might be pg15.
Stephanie's POV
It was just innocent teasing. I was just trying to take revenge when I said those words, but the silence that this dinner had turned into was a nightmare. Cliff didn't reply to my words, he went stiff, focusing on cutting up the meat into small bite-sized pieces and exchanging his plate with mine.
The awkward silence only grew while his only words were telling me to eat, and I did. I didn't know what else to do other than feel this sudden shift in the air; the suffocation as he kept being gentle, offering me things, but any other talk like before was gone.
