Cry

as in

"Don't cry, baby."

Variations: "Don’t look so sad ... Stop that ... Everything will be alright ... Here, wipe your eyes on my old woolly jumper."

If he only knew what was going through your mind!

“Thank you very much for that advice, sir."

"Do you think I would be crying if I had any choice?"

" Don’t you realise that if you didn’t outweigh me by 100 pounds I would be up beating the daylights out of you instead of weeping on the ground."

"That’s why I am crying. Because life is unfair. Because I don’t tower over you at this very moment."

No doubt he deserves a beating. Yet now he is coming on all lovey dovey.

Not because he has suddenly changed his spots. Don’t think that for a moment.

He is merely unknowingly sharing your wish, that you were as big as he is, so the two of you could settle this with your fists, the way boys do.

Instead he is stuck there defenceless caring for you.

That’s what he is pleading for. Not to comfort you but for you to stop hurting him.