Sick in the Head

Colton stared up at Elena’s unreadable face, his eyes filling with glassy tears. The desperate longing that had driven him to run out of his hospital room curdled into a bitter, burning anger. He resented her. He hated that she had left him alone all night, ignored his painful knee injury, and refused to make the exact corn chowder he wanted.

"No one asked you to take care of me anyway!" Colton s