"You're destroying us!! You never share anything with me! You never let me have control! You never let me live!
"And now… now you want to erase me?!!"
His hands slammed against the ground, his nails scraping against the wet asphalt. Pain burned through his palms, but he didn't care.
His vision spun.
This wasn't fair.
He didn't ask to exist.
He didn't ask to be created, to be trapped inside a body that wasn't truly his.
And now Alexander wanted to erase him like he was nothing?
Like he was some mistake that needed to be wiped away?
His chest ached.
His head throbbed.
A sob tore from his throat, raw, broken.
"I don't want to disappear…"
His voice cracked, and his body shook harder.
He hugged his knees, curling into himself.
"I don't want to disappear…"
He whispered it over and over, like a desperate prayer.
But he knew the truth.
No one ever asked what Ray wanted.