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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?"

Penny, so people still need to tell me things for me to know.

his brother and sighed for the second time. Atlas would say things

something that's very infuriating, Hugo summarized the situation from 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 country is

angry at

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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

"Right."

but he also understood that he and

brother lift his eyes

said it's my

the way you sulk in here tells

opened, but he shut them again. Deep in his heart, he had to admit he was a

where it doesn't belong, but I'm

don't like the feeling I felt today.

it and use it as motivation to be in power to actually make a difference. That's life that's the reality Mom and Dad hadn't

okay, I'm going back to my room," he

the door, Hugo's question stopped

sound like you were exposed to it?" Hugo kept his eyes on his brother's figure, watching Atlas slowly look back

a different story. In a way, I sort of exposed myself to the

star section,

@ Hugo kept his gaze on his brother until Atlas closed the door

I've never seen him sulk. Hugo peeled his back from the headboard and flung his legs out of the bed.

don't want to be weak, he told himself. "I'll climb my way up the

because of the major league teams poaching him. It wasn't like he never got an offer before. However, he knew that if he enlisted, he had to leave

after today, the determination in

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I need to be higher than an officer to make

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