CHAPTER 31 You're Scaring Me

  We walked to the school. I was deep in thought the whole day there, Mrs, China, the eighth-grade teacher asked me to help her with a class as she has a doctor's appointment so I did that. Afterward, I went to Azriel at the field. 

  "What is going on?" I asked. He didn't turn around, instead, just walked over to the bleachers and I followed him, sitting next to him. 

  "What do you mean, Adira," 

  "Don't play dumb now, what was that at home earlier?" I hissed at him. He sighed and ran a hand through his fingers. 

  "Oh that, don't mind us. My brother and I like to irk each other," he shrugged. 

  "That was not it, I know you two have issues but that wasn't just about those issues. Azriel, is he hiding something from me," I asked, looking him dead in the eyes. He swallowed and looked at me with the same intensity. 

  "He loves you, he wants you," he said, the words sounding bitter from his tongue. 

  "That's not the question," 

  "If you doubt him, ask him,"