**OLIVER WEST**
"Kieran calm down!" His mother spoke but he ignored her. He walked towards me and his hands shot out to grip my shoulders hard enough to bruise, forcing me away from the couch and his mother to face the full brunt of his fury.
"Is everything you both discussed true? Tell me!" Each word was like a lash, and I flinched at the harshness in his tone.
"Don't be so upset…" I reached up with my free hand to touch his face, hoping to calm him somehow, but he jerked his head away. The rejection hit me like a blow, sending spikes of pain straight through my heart.
"Yes, it is true, your dad is ill and waiting for treatments" I managed to say, my voice barely above a whisper.
Tears were starting to burn behind my eyes, but they were nothing compared to the pain I could see reflected in his. And also his mom, she had just taken her blood pressure medication, this confrontation was the last thing her heart needed.
