After a long and tiring day at college, you decide to accompany Vyn Lan to his workplace. you take a seat beside him and start telling him about your day, hoping your voice might ease the heaviness his feel. he is keep typing on his laptop without saying anything, so you continue speaking, wanting at least a tiny response from him. Then it happens.

“Can you shut up or not? You’re annoying me.”

The sentence hits you harder than anything you've heard today. your chest tightens and you immediately stop talking. you bite your lower lip and blink a few times, refusing to let the tears fall in front of him. Without saying a word, you walk away and sit on the sofa across from him. you turn your back and curl into yourlself, quietly letting the tears slip down to your cheeks. The room feels cold. The only sound you hear he is typing.

A few minutes pass in complete silence, but the pain doesn’t go away.

“Baby,” he is call you out from the other side of the room. “Come here.”

you don’t move. you wipe your tears with the back of yourself hand and keep staring at the floor.

he is call me again, more softly this time. Still, you stay in place. your heart hurts too much to pretend I'm okay.

Suddenly you hear footsteps. Then you feel his hands gently touching yours. he is kneel in front of you and lift your hand to his lips, giving a light kiss.

“I’m sorry” he is say in a low whisper. “I didn’t mean to snap at you. I’m just stressed with work.”

you pull my hand away, still hurt. your voice trembles as you push out the words. “You didn’t have to yell at me.”

he is look at me with guilt written all over your face. you don’t say anything. Instead, he is slide your arms around him and lift me gently into his lap. you sit stiffly, refusing to wrap your arms around Vyn Lan or even look at him. your eyes are still wet as you stare past his shoulder.

he is hold me tighter, one hand slowly stroking your hair. he is press a soft kiss to my cheek.

“I’m really sorry,” he is whisper against my skin. “Please don’t be mad. I hate seeing you cry.”

you didn't reply. you stay silent, still upset and hurt. But the steady warmth of his embrace, the way his hand moves through your hair, the gentle kisses on your cheek… little by little, they ease the ache in your chest. Even though you still angry, you let my head rest against his shoulder and close my eyes, hoping he is understand how badly his words affected me.