TMUW 48: Blame

"Is this what you want, Aurora?" Lucas asked calmly.

Just a few minutes after I woke up in the hospital, he was already giving me a sermon. My head was already hurting, and he was adding to it.

"I've been telling you for a long time not to meddle in my life, but because of your stubbornness, this is what you get!"

"Can you please be quiet?" I said irritably. "Lucas, I haven't even had enough rest, and now you're lecturing me—"

"Because you're giving me another problem!" he shouted. "I told you that you'd just add to my problems, but you didn't listen to me—"

"I never said to include me in your damn problems. I didn't ask for your help. You offered to help on your own, and I just accepted it. You didn't say that it would bother you to help. If you had let me know, I wouldn't have come along with you," I interrupted his tirade.

It just hurts that he's blaming me for everything that's happening when, in fact, nobody wanted any of the things that happened to me after those damn peop