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Meanwhile, Hugo stayed in his room as soon as they reached home. Since they left the station, his mind had been stuck on the family he encountered. He was in disbelief that such injustice could happen and even with the authorities involved, there was nothing that was done.

This was his first experience of another face of reality.

It was... infuriating - disturbing.

Knock knock

Hugo blinked and turned to the door, catching Atlas peek at the gap.

"You okay?" Atlas asked without even taking a step inside.

"Do I not look okay?"

"Yes"

Hugo chuckled and moved, adjusting his position on the bed. Atlas took this as an invitation to get inside the room, not daring to sit on his brother's bed with his outdoor clothes.

Yet...

"Why do you always lay down on your bed with your outdoor clothes?" Atlas couldn't help but ask. "That's disgusting"

"Did you come here to comfort me? Or criticize me?"

"Comfort you, but this habit is disturbing."

Hugo let out a deep sigh while Atlas decided to drop the subject.

"What happened while you were gone with Penny?" Like always, Atlas didn't beat around the bush. "I know something happened and you guys just don't want to tell us." "First Brother, is there something that goes past your eyes?"

I don't do fortunes like Penny, so people still need to tell me things for me to know. But because you're like an open book

and sighed for the second time.

start to finish. Not that he made the situation sound light, but he just told what was important. "It's annoying, and it's disturbing. One of the troublemakers in the station even said that this

frowned. "Aren't you angry

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and it's not my business. The battered wife chose to protect her abuser, blatantly abandoning her daughter in the process. I sympathize with them, but at the same time, I'm just seventeen. Even if it bothered me, there was

"Right."

was his honest thoughts about the story, but he also understood that he

second brother lift his

never said it's my

sulk in here tells me

Deep in his heart, he had to admit he was a little regretful, and in a way, he felt pathetic

it doesn't belong, but I'm just saying even

feeling I felt today. I felt

shrugged. "That feeling you felt today is something you'd feel many more times. You have to get used to it and use it as motivation to be in power to actually make a difference. That's life that's

my room,"

the door, Hugo's

come you sound like you were exposed to it?" Hugo kept his eyes on his

confessed. "But that's entirely a different story. In a way, I sort of exposed

the star

you can say that," he hummed before he resumed his steps. @ Hugo kept his gaze on his brother until Atlas closed the door

himself in the reality of the weak... and yet, I've never seen him sulk. Hugo peeled his back from the headboard and flung his legs out of the bed. He rested his hand on either

don't want to be weak, he told himself.

him. It wasn't like he never got an offer before. However, he knew that if he enlisted, he had to leave home. He

the determination in

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need to be higher than an officer to make

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