" 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡? "

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛

I stayed in Mike's room until he fell asleep.
I looked over Mike as he was soundly sleeping.

"Why do you care so much for him?"

I peered behind me and saw William leaning on the door frame of Mike's door.

"Because someone needs to." I was still mad at William for what he had did.
He disowns his son and clearly can't take care of a child.

"Yeah I get it I'm a bad father you don't need to rub it in." William admitted.

Now he finally admits it.

"So you now say that you're a bad parent. You could have said that before you slapped me." I whisper yelled.

I narrowed my eyes down to William's arm when I noticed something on his arm.
It was hard to see in the dim hallway light but I knew what I saw.

"William what happened to your arm?" I asked.

William moved his arm behind his back.

"It's really nothing to worry about dear."

I walked over to him.

"It really is."

I grabbed his arm and turned it over.

I gasped loudly.
There was a huge gash in his arm and other small cut around it.

He then covered my mouth to not wake Mike up.
I grabbed his other hand and took it off my mouth and dragged him to his bedroom.

"What the hell did you do to your arm!?"

William laughed a bit.

"After you ran away I drank till I couldn't feel anything and so I began to stab and cut my arm." He explained.

I shook my head.

"You dumbass. Does it hurt?"

He shook his head no.

"Not yet but it will soon." He said.

I sighed.
"Sit on your bed and I'll get you some bandages."

He listened and sat on his bed.

I went into his bathroom and looked in the cabinets for bandages.
Found them.
I grabbed a lot of them and a towel.

William was staring down at his arm.
I used the towel to wipe off some of the blood that was running down his arm.

Then I started to wrap his arm.

"Hey Afton can I ask you something."

William looked at me. He knew when I would say Afton it meant something not good.

"Yes darling."

"How come you started to drink when I left? You said before you wanted to kill me and get rid of me."

"You technically got rid of me but you were sad when I left. That means you missed me."

I ripped off the rest of the extra bandage off the roll.

William started into my eyes for a moment.

"The real question is why did you come back to me?" He said smiling.

He is trying to go around the question.

"You had countless times you could have gotten away from me and you didn't."

I clenched my hands in a fist.
"You're avoiding my question Afton." I said.

He bit his lip.

"You're right but you're also avoiding mine."