...after what happened last time? Was that just something they said to wind up Emilie's friends or were they being serious? Ciaran flicked his gaze onto Emilie who...was providing a visual suggestion that the answer to that question was the latter.

And then words were changed again, with 'last time' was upscaled to 'accident'. Considering that Emilie and her parents were all standing here looking rather healthy, Ciaran was going to assume what happened in the accident happened to someone else.

This just got better and better. Why...had she brought him here again?

And now it wasn't even like he could get out. Now he had to go into a different room and eat breakfast across from a man who had been glaring at him almost continuously for five minutes now. Maybe he shouldn't have answered him back after all.

"Thank you, Mrs Devlin" Ciaran replied, trying to sound as sincere as possible whilst Emilie's dad's stare burned holes into his neck. "Um...it's Ciaran."

He was really wishing that he could've been chased out of the house instead.