It'll Come Naturally

Tom took a deep breath, exchanged a look with Duke, then sprayed the medicine he brought on Leena's hand. Leena screeched in pain. Tom knew she would, but he figured he had to treat her anyway.

"Ouch! It hurts, Tom! You lied to me! You said I wouldn't feel a thing." The sudden pain pulled not only a scream out of her, but her head from Duke's arms. She struggled to get her hand free, but it was grasped firmly by Duke. She had no choice but to look at Tom pitifully. Her tears were the silent allegation of Tom's lie. She felt something! A big something. It hurt so much. Throwing the fact that she was surrounded by many people to the wind, she began to cry sadly. At the same time, her eyes drifted around the crowd. The sight of Kevin somehow made her feel quite reassured.

"But if I didn't lie to you, you wouldn't let me apply the medicine. What else could I do?" Then Tom took out a small bottle of white powder and sprinkled it onto Leena's injured hand. He did it so carefully, maybe because he didn't want to hurt Leena, or maybe because he was feeling reluctant to use the expensive powder. Anyway, with the medicine applied, Leena's pain went away.

Kevin was almost heartbroken to see Leena cry. So now he also looked at Tom worriedly, afraid he would use other painful medicines. Luckily, Tom packed up his medical kit after sprinkling the powder. That meant that Leena didn't need to go through anymore pain from the treatment.

"Take a look at her foot too." That was the first time Kevin said something since they all came in. And his words were quite explosive as now all their attention shifted to Leena's foot. All of them waited, holding their breath, not knowing what other injuries they were going to see.

"It's not necessary. I'm alright." Leena dreaded pain. She didn't want more done with her foot. She was tired of feeling pain -- she'd been through enough.

"Your foot got scalded too?" Duke cared about Leena so much that he held her foot up right away after hearing about any more injuries. When he saw her bruise, his eyes grew even colder.

"No." Leena murmured. She knew that Duke was already quite angry about her scald. Another bruise would only add insult to injury. She didn't want to see Duke fly into a rage and make a big deal out of her injuries. She was already in pain -- she didn't need to deal with him too.

by something. But lucky you, it's not serious. I'll write up a prescription for you. You'll be fine."

'Would Duke blame Kevin for my injuries? Hopefully not! I was careless. That's why I got burned and bruised. Kevin had

to get hurt? Is your so-called happiness purely based on injuries?" Duke questioned Kevin. Leena's premonition was right. Panicked, she embraced Duke tightly in

fault. I will be more careful." Kevin didn't explain. He took all the blame willingly. For him, it was kind of his bad

that I have never let Leena get hurt, not even for once, let alone the serious scald like today. And you think a sorry could wipe all these efforts off? How

quite gotten used to their flash marriage. That was why he was never kind to Kevin. Duke spent most of his

it's my own fault. It has nothing to do with Kevin. Please don't blame Kevin for it. Besides, he wasn't even at home when I got injured. He doesn't

made you not able to take care of yourself and get injured so badly?" Duke squinted his intimidating eyes. Did their twenty-odd years of bonding lose to her twenty days of life with Kevin? And why couldn't Leena see

all my bad. It has nothing to do with any of you." Leena caressed her forehead in relief. She felt

if we're done here, maybe we should all go home now. That way she can get as much

over after sensing the tension. She sounded

just go home. Remember, you need to drive me to school tomorrow. And we can't be late for our first day. If

would support whatever Daisy did. So he joined his mom in rescuing

How come I feel that you just set a trap for them both?" Rain quipped to downplay the tension. He knew it was no use arguing over who was to blame and