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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?"

need to tell me things for me to

for the second time. Atlas would say things with such a

"It's annoying, and it's disturbing. One of the troublemakers in the station even said that this country is the best place to live if you're a criminal. What he said made me angry, but at the same time,

frowned. "Aren't you angry

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not my family, 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.

"Right."

he also understood that he and Hugo

he called, making his second brother lift his eyes back to

said

the way you sulk in here tells me you blame

his heart, he had to admit he was a little regretful, and

saying to poke your nose where it doesn't belong, but I'm just saying even the

don't like the feeling

used to it and use it as

to my room," he added and turned around to

reached the door,

exposed to it?" Hugo kept his eyes on his brother's figure, watching Atlas slowly look

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

star section,

on his brother until Atlas closed the door behind

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

want to be weak, he told himself. "I'll climb

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 home.

determination in his

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be higher than an officer to

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