NEEDLE

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Both Luca and Alani walked upstairs to her room to get him changed up and ready for the day. Alani let go of his hand. Luca quickly took off his shirt and walked towards the closet and stopped and turned towards her.

"Smell my arm" he said and held his arm out to her. Alani took his arm and gave his arm a sniff, to only get the scent of her fruity body wash.

"I smell like you don't I?" He smiled
She chuckled at his remark and let go of his arm.

"Yeah, you do" she looked at him

"I hope you don't mind if I used it" he took of his shirt, went into the closet and took off the rest of his clothes.

"Of course I don't mind Luca, you can use it whenever you want" she looked around the room.

"Thank you, I really love the smell" he said

Alani scanned the room for the clothes that she gave him, but they were nowhere to be found.

"Um, Luca? Where's the clothes that I gave you?" She asked.

"I think still in the bathroom"

She playfully rolled her eyes and walked into the bathroom to only find the clothes sitting next to the toilet, she grabbed them shook them to make the dirt fall and walked out of the bathroom to hand him the clothes.

Luca took the clothes and began to put on the clothes, he didn't understand why he couldn't keep the clothes, they made him feel comfortable and he liked them. But, he didn't want to upset Alani, so, he just put on the clothes she gave him to make her happy. If she was happy then he was happy and that's all that mattered to him.

When he was done he calmly walked out of the closet and in front of her. Alani giggles at the sight which made Luca cock his head to the side in a confusing manner.

"What? Is there something on my face?" He quickly wiped his face and blushed a little.

"No, you have the shirt on backwards silly" she poked his chest. Luca looked down at his shirt to see that his shirt was backwards, he smiled and shook his head at himself for having his shirt backwards.

"I'll fix it" he said while taking the shirt off to fix it, while struggling and wiggling around. Alani noticed a burn scar on his side that was shaped almost like a spoon, she was confused on how it got there and didn't think before reaching out to touch it.

When her cold finger tips touched his scar, he flinched, stopped and looked at her.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to touch it" she said as she draws her hand back.

"It's okay" he said while putting his shirt on the right side, Alani took a seat on the bed and Luca sat next to her.

After seeing the bruise, Alani started to question on what had happened to him. Maybe the staff members at the facility did that to him. It pained her heart to know someone physically harmed him when he's nothing but an angel.

Luca looked at her worried face and sighed heavily.

"I-it happened when I was six" he stated, Alani looked at him with a startled face and shook her head.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to Luca" she told him.

Luca smiles softly at her and held her hand.

"You trusted me, so, I trust you. I want to tell you what happened" His words made Alani smile along with her heart.

"When I was six, this lady would drag me to the kitchen whenever I tried to tell my parents about the things she would do. She would heat up a spoon on the stove and stick it to my side to keep me quiet about what she did" Luca sighed.