My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Holding me tightly in his arms, Irvin asked, "Where had you been for the whole day? Why didn't you call me to let me know?"

I was stunned, finally realizing that he had feelings for me. There was a bitter taste in my mouth. It seemed that I had made a mistake.

After a long time, he let go of me. He regained his composure and asked, looking at me, "Where did you go for a whole day?"

"I... I don't know. I went out for a walk, and when I woke up, I was already in the hospital," I mumbled, leaving out the part where Hendrix found me and sent me to the hospital on purpose.

Irvin sighed and nodded, "Thank god you're alright." Then, lowering his head to look at my blood-stained feet, he frowned, "Did you walk all the way back?"

I nodded and lowered my eyes, "I don't have a phone or any money, so I couldn't exactly take a taxi home."

"You could have called me to pick you up, you know?" Irvin sighed. He closed his eyes in hopelessness, and when he opened them, it looked like he had made peace with himself. "Well, it's my fault. I didn't think it through." I didn't reply to him.

He sat me on the sofa and brought the first aid kit to the living room. Half kneeling on the ground, he placed my feet on his knee and began to clean the wounds.

wound, it stung me, and I couldn't help but flinch. Irvin held

me through unnecessary discomfort. He even blew

of us and started spreading rumors, the whole city would be talking about the Roberts and Granger family. Things would end up more disastrous than we had

about?" Irvin kept the tools back into the first aid kit and raised his

feet back. I didn't answer him, only watched him putting the first aid kit back to its place. Then, he came to sit next to

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that was putting down the glass froze, "What do

for us to be so close now since I have moved into the city. Aunt Nerissa was right. We will be

these words, let alone putting

couldn't - and I wouldn't take them

asked in a cold

tight that my fingers were digging into my flesh. I answered, "I already owe you

the tittle-tattle, I will stay away from you. But you will have to go back to

can rest assured that