Hurt

I shoved him back. “No! I’m not going to let you hurt me.”

“Why not?” He snapped virulently as he tilted his head warningly. “You let everything else!”

“That’s not fair!” I took an angry step toward him. “I never wanted to be hurt.”

“No but you certainly wanted to hurt me.” He countered.

Ouch.

That had not been my intention. Him saying that felt very unfair.

“I…” I shook my head. Trying to catch up to this argument. It had taken a far right turn and slammed into a wall.

“Let’s just be real honest, Allie Kat. You’ve been taking out on me what your dad did, for years. Because you knew I was the one person that would always stick around.”

I had no response to that. Is that really true?

“But now when feet hit the floor, you don’t want to admit it.”