Jack looks up at her from where he was clipping Roxy’s nails and he freezes at seeing her face. His eyes double in size. His jaw hangs open. “…wh… what?” he asks, voice small, tiny, voicing his shock at seeing his girlfriend with a bruise and knowing she’d gone after a bad guy.“She told me she burned your gallery. I got so angry! I couldn’t let her get away with it..” She frowned, crossing her arms across her chest. “She was laughing at you. I couldn’t..”
Her mouth pouted and she winced again.
He stared at her still. Quickly he gets to his feet and goes to her, touching her cheek gently not to hurt but just to inspect. Oh God. People might think he hits her Or something bad happened. His stomach knots up, and he shakes his head.
“Y-you shouldn’t do that… you shouldn’t let them goad you in-into violence like that. It’s, it’s what bullies do. They lower you to th-their standards and make you fight, a-and you become li-like them, relying on violence.. I-I know because all the doctors told me that, when-when I was bullied so badly…” he trails off, groaning, and shuts his eyes.
“Katelynn I am grateful bu-but what if she comes after you even more now, t-that you tried?”
Jack Maple 