Luna immediately grabbed hold of Neil's ankle, exposing his injured sole of the feet. There were still a few broken pieces lodged in them.
She sighed and clutched onto his ankle, while gently taking the broken pieces out of his feet with the tweezers.
"How could you be so careless?"
Neil was initially seated, but when Luna tugged at him, he was forced to lie back on the bed. He could not exert his strength. Luna clutched onto his ankle tightly. It was quite painful, so Neil just gave up struggling.
However, even though his body stopped struggling, he was still defiant in his speech. He furrowed his brows and looked at Luna.
"It’s none of your business whether I'm careless or not. I’ve already said to stop being a hypocrite and pretentious with me! I'm not Nigel or Nellie. This won't work on me!"
Luna furrowed her brows. "Even if I’m being a hypocrite, even if I’m being pretentious, I'm helping you to clean your wound. What do you have to lose? Why are you resisting it?”
When she took the final piece of the broken plate out, she took a cotton bud, dipped it in alcohol, and helped
Neil disinfect his wound.
"Furthermore, you're hurt. I'm pretentious just because I care for you? Should I just sit and watch you dress your own wounds badly, wait until it gets infected and you fall sick, and only then I’m not pretentious?
"Do you think you're not worthy of compassion from others nor worthy of being concerned by others?"
Then, Luna slapped Neil’s butt. "I forbid you to say such nonsense anymore!"
Her slap was not painful, but Neil’s eyes had tears in them. He did not know whether it was because his butt hurt or his foot hurt, or perhaps...what Luna said pierced through him.
She was right.
No one else had cared for him apart from Uncle Theo.
Neil could not remember the past, but his mother told him that it was because he was not obedient and did not listen to her, so the house exploded.
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