Not The Whole Truth

The truth

I have to tell her before someone else does. After we got our food I knew I should tell her now. "Maddie!" I yelled "ya Niall?" She said like she could see that I was worried. "Um, I don't work anywhere I go to practice at the gym, I'm a boxer." I kinda stuttered a little. I gave her a while to think about it then I said "are you ok with that because I don't want you to be afraid of me." I was afraid I might have scared her a little but I don't know if she will want to know why. If she does she might cry and I HATE seeing her cry! But she did, she asked why I started to box. But when she did she didn't seem scared by my answer, " my cousin got bullied and I had to defend her she was a lot younger than me it stopped after a while, but not the way I hoped." I was afraid she now didn't like what she was picturing in her mind I could tell by the look on her face. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner I didn't want to lose you, I love you too much." She lifted her head I could tell she had to think about what I had said earlier. "Niall, it's fine you didn't tell me but plz next time tell me sooner, I'm fine with the boxing thing it's just how didn't it stop the way you hopped it would?" I knew she was gonna ask that. " well it started one day I saw her in a corner crying and there were 3 guys in front of her and they were screaming at her to get up just to punch and kick her back down, so I whent over and tried to stop them but they didn't listen so I punched one of them and it turned into a huge fight but the one who got hurt the worse was my cousin. She wasn't hurt, they tried to convince me she was passed out, but she wasn't breathing, they killed her. I was so angry I screamed at them and punched them I almost killed them. But I would never hurt you, I only want to protect you." I could tell she understood. "Niall, I know it's hard it would be after that, I love you."