Chapter 28

"What happened? I asked Cheska when I saw her sitting by the sea.

"It's hot here; you haven't sunblocked yet," I told him.

He didn't speak, so I just spoke again.

"You can tell me about your anger even though you are older than me. If you don't want to as a brother, you can as a person you don't even know," I told him again.

"You know the hard thing about being dad's son is that he makes you do what you can't do; if you can't do it, he will replace you. I was still young, and I could see that dad didn't like me; he had no love for me no matter what I did. It's not my fault that I was born sick. There's nothing I can do because no matter what medicine I take, my pain still remains," he said with resentment.

"I show my father my achievements in school, but that's not what he wants. Because I can't speak directly in front of many p