"It hurts" the boy said without moving his lips
"Here," the girl touched her fingers to the boy's eyelids, "let me feel."

And they stayed like that for a long time, in silence, until tears fell from the girl's eyes,
And the boy said, "See?"
And the girl said, "Feel."

The girl felt weighted, but the boy looked lighter
So every time the boy got the heavy look in his eyes
The girl touched them to draw the pain out of him and into her.