Anna looked at the letters in her hand for a while and started to pack all of them inside her school bag. When she entered the house, there was a pin drop silence as usual.
How can anybody live in a place like this? It gave a kind of chilly feeling as if it was the house of a dead person. Anna took off her shoes and silently passed the hallway. There was complete darkness. Looks like the people in this house don't even bother to light the hallway.
When she was crossing the study room, she found a small source of light that was coming from the table lamp inside the room. Her dad was engrossed in reading a book with great concentration, wearing his glasses. He didn't know his daughter was home. Or he didn't care?