Soul Searching Eyes & Demons I Hide

“But - but -” he stutters “I - I lov -”The man shoves him harder against the wall and he has to restrain a shout. Some part of him wants to escape, and another tells him to stay, that this is the punishment he deserves for indulging in such sins.“You cannot love him. You can’t, believe me. You can’t or you’ll die, so change, Ted. Change, or you will not live. For your own sake.”...Theodore Phillips is the Avonlea schoolteacher, who is especially disliked by the red headed snippet the Cuthberts keep and that artist farm boy, Cole. He especially returns the hatred of Cole, and the boy can only speculate why.He used to love once, and be loved, when he was but a young man of seventeen in Charlottetown. Trysts in the forests and at parties and nights behind the bar, all memories that Ted never speaks of but cherishes.He cannot punish himself, and so he punishes the innocent student before him. “If you want to hate someone...you should look in the mirror.”