After thinking for a while, Ash sighed and decided to tell them the truth. He never liked talking about that because two years had passed, but it still hurt. The wound in his heart got pierced again and again whenever he thought of that ugly day. "She rejected me," he said under his breath, but his father's sharp ears caught every word he said. Clearly.

"What? When? How come you never told us?" His father asked.

"Two years ago," he muttered.

"What?" Both Grill and his mother gasped at the same time. His brother had his hands on his mouth, looking at him as if he hadn't heard what he...