Icarus and the Bird with Clipped Wings
11.
The other boy stiffened.
That was all Takuya got to see before he was dragged off the roof, even if the scream followed him. 'Sorry,' apologised the nurse, after they stopped in the elevator.
''m sorry too,' Takuya mumbled, knowing he'd screwed up somehow, even though he wasn't quite sure how. Of course, there was the whole not to talk thing, but it definitely wasn't that. Or all that.
Even if his jaw was screaming.
And the nurse realised that when she looked, and readjusted the ice pack that had started to go warm. 'You shouldn't talk with that,' she scolded lightly. 'And on top of that, you say something to set someone else off entirely by accident…' She shook her head. 'It's a small world, I guess. And you're not the type who can sit silently.'
Takuya shook his head sheepishly.
