Due to her childish actions and provocation, he and who knows who else had gotten injured. What if the bullet had caused or more serious injury? Or killed him? She would never be able to live it down.
As she knelt down, tears trickled down her face as she carelessly wiped them away while trying to restrain herself. She wasn't the one injured so there was no place for her to be crying.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Please don't die. Please don't hate me. Hic. Hic."
Richard watched the girl in front of him break down into quiet sobs as she endlessly apologized. Her usually bright sparkling eyes were filled with tears and her face was flushed red. Her body was slumped, and she looked as if the world had collapsed around her. As she withheld her cries, her whole body shook uncontrollably.