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Sungyeol clearly remembers the day his older brother comes home with bruises on his face. He hadn’t even tried to hide the scars from his parents and the younger one had seen the deep worry in his mother’s eyes. The way her fingertips moved lightly over the lines and their father called the principal to warn him showed that they cared for their son.
So, Sungyeol can’t get what is happening when he is caught after a fight between him and another student. His parents take him home silently, not even a word towards the teachers. Sungyeol eats his nails, a bit scared but knows his mother will care for him well.
It doesn’t go as well as he thought it would. His mother yells at him for making a mess out of his clothes. His father tells him to grab a hold of himself or that he would make him change schools. On top of the purple bruise over his left eye, his father leaves a slap mark on his right cheek.
It burns, burns and burns more.
Eventually it stops hurting, on the day Sungyeol leaves his family.
