0.54 A Conversation Over Dinner

"Are you smiling to yourself?" Ariana snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Freda's voice. 

"W-What?" She frowned, missing what she had said.

They were both in the kitchen preparing dinner and Ariana had been thinking about how today went pretty well, contrary to what she had expected.

"What are you thinking about that made you smile so wide? Or have you been hit on the head?" Freda placed her hands on her hips as she regarded Ariana while stirring the vegetables in the pan.

"N-Nothing, just thinking about something funny," Ariana shook her head slightly as she handed Freda the salt before sitting on the counter.

She had been thinking of something. And that something was Jared Antiano.

She found it hard to take him out of her head after seeing him today. The two days they had been apart seemed to be much longer than it appeared and playing with the kids at the orphanage with him turned out to be her favourite thing.