Chapter 7 - Andrew

"What the hell happened to your face?!"

Adom's face was bad; his right side had a slight bruise, above his eyebrow was a cut and so did his bottom lip.

"Nothing."

"Adom I know it was more then nothing."

He looks away from me and I sigh. I walk up to him, touch his face (the none bruised side) and had him look at me.

"Please tell me...I care about you and I," I take a deep breath," I want to know who did this to you."

The corner of his mouth starts to twitch and he sighs.

"My father."

"W-what?"

"He was like this for as long as I can remember. And he," he looks down, sighs and looks dead at me," he would be drunk when he would touch me and...and..."

Adom looked away and started to cry. It surprised me but we went to sit down and I held him close to me

"You don't have to explain anymore. I get the picture."

He nods his head but doesn't move away from me.

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"Andrew I can hear your heart beat."

I jump and look at Adom. He had a sly smile on his face and I could feel mine heat up.

"O-okay."

Adom takes my hand and kisses it. He looks back into my eyes with a smile and my heart beats faster.

"Thanks you for caring about me and understanding."

I just nod my head and kept looking into his dark brown eye. I wanted to take the eye patch off to see what color it was.

"Adom, Andrew we got to get to class." Victoria said.

"See you later."

He gets up and walks away. I get up and follow him.

"Adom..."

He turns around and I freeze.

"Yes Andrew?"

"W-would you...uh...maybe like to um...I dont know...go on a date...sometime?"

I look away because I'm afraid of his answer. Then my face was lifted to look up at Adoms face.

"Sure...just wait until this bruise on my face goes away. It'll take about another day."

"O-okay."

He smiles, let's my face go and walks into the building. I smile and follow.