hold the power to hurt me

"Fuck," Leo grumbled under his breath as he hesitated to open the folded piece of paper he held in his hands.

He went back to Annie's locker, breaking into it to return the last note he had taken before the football game. He decided he wasn't going to take and read anymore.

Now that him and Annie had become somewhat friends and since she was starting to warm up to him, he felt even more guilty about the notes and knew he should stop. She would tell him things when she was ready to.

But then, when he was returning the last note he took, he couldn't help himself as he saw the new one so he took it, not knowing what to do.

He knew it was wrong and it was betraying her trust, nor was it fair to her but he just couldn't help it. He wasn't patient and he wanted to easily just know what she was feeling and thinking. He knew he still had a long way to go to get her to trust him and tell him things but Leo just wanted to make sure she was okay right now and the only way he could do that was by