I Was Scared

***Victor***

I wasn’t sure which part amused me more—the fact that Hazel thought I was asleep… or the fact that Brooke had been assigned the monumental responsibility of *“watching over me”* and was instead hunched over her phone, aggressively tapping at some obnoxiously loud game.

Granted, I had fallen asleep earlier. Hazel’s hands had a way of quieting everything inside me. The moment she touch