An unexplainable yet explainable feeling washed over me as I looked at the cute boy with ginger brown curly hair, milky white skin, and baby blue tears curled on my bed while looking at me.

The sight of white patches of dried tears stuck on the corners of his eyes made me feel like an invisible hand with long claw-like nails that had successfully pierced through my chest and grabbed my heart, squeezing and playing with it.

"Let me take you to Maria, please, Sony." I kneeled beside the bed and ran my fingers through his hair gently, trying to comfort him. The vulnerability in his eyes mirrored my own,...