"We were just friends, and there was nothing going on between us."
I don't know and I can't even count how many times I've reasoned that to my parents when Lawrence visited me that night. They continued to tease us, while Lawrence and I did nothing but avert our gazes from each other while examining what happened to my skin.
When my parents allowed us to be alone, that's when I had a chance to talk to him in depth. His eyes were a bit narrowed while looking at the bruises on my skin. I don't even know how I got a bruise on my body, and the only thing I remember is that she strangled me in my neck. After that, there's nothing more that I could remember.
I don't even feel that she hurt me because the bruises on my body are not that painful. I don't feel anything right now. Maybe I can sti
