Chapter42:Go home, Corey

Ethan’s POV “It wasn’t your fault,” Corey said and patted me on the back. I was still in shock as I watched the paramedics confirmed my father’s death and took him away. I knew I didn’t literally kill him, but I still felt guilty for saying being so harsh and driving my father to have a heart attack. Charles had been quiet, and stone faced the entire time they came and took his body away. I realized this might be hard on him as he was his father too. Charles never got his closure from him. He died before Charles had the chance to change his opinion about him. He never got to hear him say he was accepted just as he was. “Are you okay?” I asked Charles. He looked at me with a grim expression. “I didn’t mean for him to die. I just wanted to be accepted as his son,” he said. His eyes were glinting as if tears might fall off his cheeks any moment, but he was holding back as best as he could. I grabbed his shoulder and squeezed it. I wasn’t the only person feeling guilty, and it was kind of