3 days later
*Zayan*
"Sit down, Zayan... you're stressing everyone out," Thiago says, pointing to the couch. "No one is going to hurt her."
"What if they... if she gets upset? If they ask her something bad, about me or about Calix?" I sit down but feel how my food kind of bounces.
Thiago sighs. "She can handle herself; Hadley is a strong girl..."
"Could we... not call her a girl? It kinda makes her seem so young," I mumble, cutting him off.
"... and she has Marshall with her." He gives me a look. "Zayan... She is young; you have to come to terms with that. There is nothing wrong with your relationship, but if you want others to accept it, you need to first."
I breathe in slowly; damn, he is right. She needs me to be there fully, and to be that, I need to stop obsessing about the age
