The nerves of his lower body had become damaged because of this managed pressure and his blood circulation was at times not in motion. His legs and arms would grow numb more often than not.
Was silence the only answer I was ever meant to receive? A child, desperate to understand why they couldn't be loved, why they could never seem to be enough. They searched for reasons where there were none, mistaking another's absence of love for proof of their own unworthiness.