Kyoko’s eyes softened even more and the heartbreaking smile slowly disappeared from her face. The longer she watched him sleep… the worse she felt. She was giving him nightmares for heaven’s sake. Her bottom lip started to tremble and she backed away. How could she do this to him? He only wanted to protect her… be with her.
When they were kids, all he could talk about was that when they grew up… they would be married. All those years, he’d protected her from bullies in the schoolyard, kept away the boys that only had one thing on their mind… and now he was the voice of reason. He felt it was his duty to remind her of hers and she couldn’t blame him for that.
Turning, she fled to her room slowing down only long enough to gently close the door behind her. As she removed her hand from the k
