I can't find anything online. No one seems interested in hiring a sixteen year old girl who doesn't have any experience or even a high school diploma. I guess going back to live with Mauro is starting to look better by the minute... but I still don't want to give in to him like that.

Maybe if I went back and apologized, he wouldn't be so angry anymore? It couldn't hurt to try...

I knock on Mauro's door quietly, not wanting to startle him or anything. After a moment, he calls out for me to enter. I hesitantly open the door and step inside his room. He's lying on his bed, looking at his phone.

"Hey," I say softly. "I... I wanted to apologize for getting so angry earlier and storming off like that."

He glances up at me for a moment before going back to his phone. "It's fine, Kira.