Shiro's P.O.V
"Then I told him to stay away. To me, a relationship like that was unhealthy. The more he spent time with me, the more I didn't want him to leave. Some nights after he left, I would cry. My heart felt like it was breaking every time he had to go... so I told myself that I needed some space from him. Men freak out when women confess how they felt... I feared that if I told him he would tell me he didn't feel as strongly for me as I did for him, so I broke my own heart instead of him breaking mine. Then, every time he came around, I pretended I wasn't home... but he would linger... sit on the steps of my home for hours waiting for me to return. I didn't know that at the time, he knew all along that I was home."
Ma smiled, but she was lost in thought... I had never heard this
