“Why did you take the punishment?”
“Because I can’t let someone else get punished for what I did,” he said, wiping a tear away from my cheek.
“Why did you even fight in the first place? Look what happened to you now. It must hurt a lot and you will get a lot of scars. I don’t like seeing you get hit and I don’t like your brothers.” I said more tears falling down my cheeks. I hated this, it wasn’t right.
“Are you crying for my sake now? You really confuse me, one time you are scared of me and the other one you cry because I am hurt, even though I hurt you just now.”
To be honest, I was confused myself, but I just didn’t like to see him like this.
“Hazel,” he said, adopting a softer tone and wiping away more tears with his thumb “What are you doing to me?”
“What?” I said, confused but
