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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?"

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

brother and sighed for the second time. Atlas would say

even said that this country is the best place to live if you're

you angry at

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chose to protect her abuser, blatantly abandoning her daughter in the process. I

"Right."

about the story, but he also understood that he and Hugo were different in

lift his eyes back to him. "It's

said it's my

sulk in here tells me you blame yourself

again. Deep in his heart, he had to admit he was a little regretful, and in a way,

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

but I don't like the feeling I felt

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 the reality Mom and

since you're okay, I'm going back to my room,"

Atlas reached the door, Hugo's

like you were exposed to it?" Hugo

not long ago," Atlas confessed. "But that's entirely a different story. In a way, I sort of exposed myself to the ugly reality of the

star

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

even exposed 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

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

reconsidering enlisting in the military 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. He

the determination in his

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to be higher than an officer to make a change,

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