The First to Cry

Kaelen’s POV

How could she be crying for me?

Nobody had ever cried for me before.

Sloane had been too young to understand what was happening when I left at sixteen. She had thought I was only going away for a little while, not disappearing from her life for years.

Nobody cried for me when my father died.

Nobody was even there for him except me.

Nobody cried when I was eighteen and forced to fend