Chapter 180: SIAN

He'd stopped eating and turned to look at me. The others were busy having their own conversations and the rest of the room was as noisy as to be expected. But this was not the place or time for this conversation.

I didn't know that I was crying until his fingers wiped the tears away. "No, it's nothing." I grabbed his arm when he started to get up from his chair, keeping him in place. Who knows what craziness he was about to do.

"Then why the fuck are you crying?" At least he'd leaned in so no one else could hear. I looked at him and felt my heart squeeze. How can I tell him that he was breaking my heart? That seeing this change in him was like watching something die?

I knew that the boy I met was gone. Not that I loved him any less, no. My pain was for the fact that the happy go lucky goof was no more. That the boy with the infectious grin had vanished right before my eyes.

Even with his sometimes overbearing, over protective manner, he was still a teenager. This was no teen si