Elfie opened the door to find a sullen Edward with his bag.
"Why do you look like you've been jilted? What happened? Was it really bad? I thought you said you had it under control?"
Edward came in and made himself home at Elfie's place. It wasn't his first time here and all the other things related to Anastasia's trace were in Elfie's apartment. Edward didn't know how to cope with his feelings so the best option he could think of was to run away from them until they became numb.
"Nothing," he said but Elfie wasn't buying it. Edward had a self-destructive tendency to throw himself into work whenever he didn't want to deal with something. It was one of the bad habits in his friend that he couldn't help to change even after knowing him for so long. It didn't take a genius to figure out what this was all about.
"It's Scarlet, isn't it? What happened? I thought you were both doing well compared to Alex and Jasper."
