MATILDA

The Key

Dustin followed Molly after a long stare at Steve and met her

sitting on a little chair in the secret room which leads to the

underground. He sighed and breathed down heavily after putting his

hands in his trouser pockets. He quietly sat on the ground besides Molly

and cleared his throat. Molly looked at him and focused on the picture

she was watching.

“You know you can talk to me about anything anytime right?” he

looked at her.

“We didn’t grow up well like other kids” Molly said slowly.

“What? Why’d you say that?”

“You said I can talk to you about anything anytime”

“That’s not what I meant”

“I know” she chuckled and Dustin joined her.

“I’m sorry” she said and Dustin looked at her.

“About what?”

“For not telling you about Cebus. Cebus… Cebus is like, my lifetime

dream. I could even meet Billie Eillish there or more celebrities there”

she added and sighed down.

“Yeah”

“I couldn’t have done what I did… I could have told you first before dad.

You could have told me not to tell