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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?"

tell me things for me to know. But because you're like an open book among us, it's easy to know when you're

studied his brother and sighed for the second time. Atlas

even said that this country is the best place to live if you're a criminal. What he said made me angry, but

angry

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"It's 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."

the story, but he also understood that he and Hugo

making his second brother lift his eyes back to him. "It's not

never said it's my

here tells me you blame

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

belong, but I'm just saying

like the feeling I felt

"That feeling you felt today is something you'd feel many more times. You have to get used to it and use it

since you're okay, I'm going back to my room," he added and turned around to

Atlas reached the door, Hugo's question stopped

hadn't exposed us yet... how come you sound like you were exposed

ago," Atlas confessed. "But that's entirely a different story. In a

star

say that," he hummed before he resumed his steps. @ Hugo kept his gaze on his brother until Atlas

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 side

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

It wasn't like he never got an offer before. However, he knew that if he

today, the determination in

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than an officer to

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