Chapter Fifty-Seven

Lorenzo - Twelve Years Old

Aurora sighed as she saw him bleeding from the head, she held his hand and made him sit in her chair as she went to get the first aid box.

She came back with one and crouched down before him, "Why don't you fight back, Lorenzo? I can't be everywhere to protect you. You have to learn how to protect yourself."

Lorenzo couldn't feel much pain, his body had grown used to it by now. He understood pain because that's all he had seen since the day he was born. What he didn't understand that how he stopped feeling it. His head was bleeding but he could barely feel it.

"Tommaso is seventeen now, it's only a year left then he will go away..."

Aurora cleaned the blood, shaking her head. "Today it's Tommaso and tomorrow it will be someone else. You need to learn to protect yourself, Lorenzo. It doesn't matter who your bully is, you need to learn how to stand your ground against anyone who is unkind, cruel, and treats people with brutality."

Lorenzo dropped his eye