Chapter 14: Silent 1.

One day...three days...a week...two weeks and still, I've been unable to even say hi to him. He's been avoiding me and it's been hurting badly since I can't control the urge to talk to him.

Watching him talk to no one, sitting there in his seat all by himself...the regret worsens. And now everyone knows what he truly is.

Screw that prick Ignacio for spreading it round the school and plunging the resentment Silver must have for me. 

"Heather...please don't look so sad and broken. He just needs time to blend into the new order of things. It's his whole life that's changed now".

Ria starts her sensational speech again and it only scratches at the guilt in my heart. 

I made him insecure and placed him in a spot, cornering him from all sides. Even with the interrogations, he never spilled anything and only pleaded to be left alone.

There's so much he's going through all by himself. And to think that I just went ahead and.... God, I'm a