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What?

By noas sure lad I still had soht hide the proof of my embarrassment

“For what?” I choked out

“Tutoring My grades were for shit Alot held back my freshman year”

“Did you find one? A tutor I mean?”

Cain shook his head “It wasn’t a priority after that”

The cryptic statement made no sense to me, but I didn’t ask him what he meant because I could tell from the dark look in his eyes that he wasn’t about to expound on it

“How about college? Maybe you ended up with the Freshhtness I’d seen in his eyes for the briefest of moments

“Didn’t go to college” I saw his fingers start to flex and un-flex and I found itation wouldn’t result in me with a split lip or bruised cheek

“How co?” Cain asked

The switch back toto him helped relax me

“A few ht him home to ht myself so co else But my fa what they had to say, I cut them out of my life”

“They didn’t like him,” Cain said

I shook s I refused to Like how he’d put me down, how he talked only about hiry with thes aboutabout my health When he put down one ofI could do even better When he talked about hi than me I was just so blind,” I murmured

“Why?”

The bluntness of his question caught aze He looked…curious

“I guess because he was the first person who ever truly wanted me I mean, I knew my family loved me and stuff, but I felt like he saithout the unconditional love that your family sees you with and he liked what he saw He chose me despite all my flaws”

“Flaws?” Cain asked, his voice low

“My weight, s…he was always encouraging s to help me be better,” I explained