In the ward, Henry was clumsily peeling an apple.
"I don't want to feel this bad anymore. Renata, please don't get hurt again. I beg you."
I ate the popsicle he bought and after saying yes vaguely, I glared at him fiercely. "Then do you want to be my boyfriend?"
That whole day, both of us blushed and could not say anything.
I told Henry a secret that no one knew.
Every time my dad got drunk and crazy, he would beat my mom and beat her to the point where she was half dead. But then, a broken rose would always appear in the house the next day as an apology.
So, if he wanted to break up with me one day, he did not have to say it. Just gave me one rose.
"Silly, we will always be together." The eighteen-year-old boy hugged me tightly and did not allow me to say anything foolish again.
In order to get rid of my father's pestering, Henry took me to study abroad together. For that reason, his father cut off all his financial resources in order to force us to break up.
At that time, we had to work two part-time jobs every day besides going to school.
Those days were so hard and busy, but he and I could not help but make fun of each other even in between brushing our teeth.