Team leader Zuresh's Return.

"Forget about that, Shikera, and look at my face,"

Shikera examined his face for whatever he wanted her to see, and apart from the fatigue and stress she noticed, there was nothing else.

"What am I expected to see?" she asked.

"I was unable to sleep comfortably for this past few days. Whose fault was that?" Ethan answered her, while asking another question.

"Not mine, I'm sure of that. Since you were the one who did not want to touch me because you wanted me to tell you 'the story of my life's first," Shikera protested, shaking her head. Her hands, which she folded across her chest tightening the more.

"That was not why...never mind. I will get enough sleep for the day, so you aren't allowed to leave home too regardless of the reason," he ran his hand through his hair, a futile attempt to disrupt the smoothened hair.

"It's the weekend. I have to go out to get ice cream."