Shintaro looked inside cautiously. Raven was sitting at the side of the hospital bed while laughing at someone he could not see. He did not know why he was doing this if he could just come in for a visit anytime, but he somehow felt guilty.
He felt guilty knowing that he was hiding something, especially from Rowie. Yes, he wanted to help, but this was the only way he could think of to help them, especially in Raven’s case.
He was just a high school student who only knew how to get drunk and smoke. Without his older brother’s help, and now his godfather’s, he did not know how to help them anymore.
He knew well enough that Rowie hated it whenever someone stepped on her ego. She grew up trying to defend her stepmom from her dad. She grew up almost on her own, which was why she did not wan
