Internal Sin: 006

(Kai's point of view)

"Hey, Kai! Why don't you quit behaving like a chicken and come out here and fight like a man?"

At moments like this, I wish I could shrink or melt into a wall instead of dealing with Kyrell's verbal and physical abuse.

I moaned again, self-loathing as I rubbed my molten palms together on the lavatory toilet, shut away from the mocking parasite outside the door.

A guardian angel?

Ah! I laughed at the hypocrisy of those words as I began to wonder whether he was an angel or a circus performer with some tricks under his sleeve, but if he was, he had succeeded in exposing my idiocy.

I knew an angel could never act like that, but I decided to accept his nonsense and now look at me, just a few steps away from getting punched in the face again.

I stayed in there, pleading to whatever was listening to help me, and as if in response, the voices stopped, followed by slamming doors and departing footsteps.

I sluggishly climbed down, opened the door, and peered outside, sighi