I asked her directly if it had been my father, but instead of answering, she squirmed and told me to let go. A laughable thought came to my mind: was she protecting my father from me?
Had she fallen like my mother had, was this how to win a woman's heart?
With pain?
Holding her face, I felt my grip tightening.
I forgot where we were; I forgot the other students around me, imaging my father burning together with that house.
And all the while, between these violent thoughts, I looked into the ocean, hoping it would douse me, holding me back and drowning me. But the blue of her eyes were shadowed by that light bruise, and the longer I stared in the depths of the sea, the angrier I was.
Wasn't it like this? A high amount of water could douse a fire, but a small amount would only fuel the flames.