"Seriously, you need to get here now! My brother's bleeding like a stuck pig!"

"...I'm on my way."

Aurora Lopez ended the call, and as she looked up, she caught Craig staring at her with what seemed like surprise that she could actually tell a lie. "It's a white lie! Otherwise, with my brother in this state, none of us could handle it."

"I didn't say anything."

...

At the hospital, the doctor cleaned up Miles Lopez's wound and wrapped it up neatly.

The cut wasn't deep, and to avoid scarring, they decided against stitches.

All the fuss sobered him up quite a bit, and he sat in the chair, letting the doctor apply antiseptic and bandage him up without a word.

Seeing his silent, brooding demeanor was driving Aurora crazy!

"Bro, you can't just sit there like that! I've called Felicity over. You need to act like you're in agony so she'll feel sorry for you!"

The way Miles was now, he hardly looked like a man who had just attempted a dramatic gesture of love.

don't want to deceive

much like lying. Even if

act for once? Sometimes us

a look. "That doesn't apply to

seemingly

about me. You

Leave you here by yourself? Miles, can't you

was about to continue when Craig

give your brother some space. He's

has feelings for him. A little

up. I'm trying fix things, and he's here acti all high and

Let's just wait out here for

emergency department doors, not even having changed

"How's Langston?"

out of

sitting

"...What happened?"

some sense into him; I've failed. Craig and

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