Six people sitting at our dinner table, because my sister and mom had also hurried home the moment they saw the news, which me and Minho hadn't seen in the midst of our confession chaos.
At least our families now wouldn't have secrets anymore. I think. We never know, thats the point of secrets.
Nobody had spoken a word and the silence was louder than anything we ever said. It was only a moment away, someone breaking the silence as if it was a delicate seal around us. And someone had to do it, but it wouldn't be me.
No, it was my sister, with the worst possible joke to say in this situation.
"So I guess we all have daddy issues?"
"SOYOUNG." Dad yelled.
"Someone had to start the conversation."
"That was not the appropriate way."
"It might be a terrible way of phrasing it but your daughter is right in a way," Minho's mom said, "My son's father was definitely an issue."
"I can't believe that you're the people that, you know, .." My mom tried to say something but wasn't successful.
"Yes, it was a huge case, international, maffia, murder, but I didn't even know about that part when I was under his grip. Our lives were horrible and I felt as if I had failed as a mother. Everything seemed like it was solved, like I was safe after we left but when something gets that big, people forget its real and that me and my son are real people. Our traumas were merely a newsflash and a few minutes of a youtube video, not real life people living their life. Thats why I usually never tell anyone, and why I live in this place and all. It seemed like an escape, nobody knew us here."
"That's what we did too. As soon as me and my boyfriend figured out what happened we changed our lives completely and the last step was moving here."
"Can I know what happened?"
Mom looked at me and my sister for approval first, before trying to remember how to tell it.
"I had these two with another man when I was very young, but we ended up divorcing. Everything seemed normal but when I started dating my boyfriend, they kept coming home with bruises and wounds. I didn't know what to do and they said they always fell, until Sora's friend came forward a few years later and told us what was happening, about how he abused them. I felt too as if I had failed as a mother, failed to protect my children, especially because they were too scared to tell me themselves. I couldn't understand why they didn't want to tell me. But we're here now a few years later and I will do everything I can to protect my children now too."
"Me too, the feeling of parental failure. Back then I thought I was the step dad they didn't hate, but they looked at me as their real father and I should have been there for them."
Soyoung looked at me again.
"Yo Sora are you just like not impressed by everything? Your best friend is the son of a famous serial killer and you dont care."
Everyone looked at me suddenly.
´best friend´. No Sora, not the right time.
"Of course I care. I already knew though."
"So Minho also knew about us?" My mother looked at me in surprise.
"I did. Why are you all so surprised? The school counselor told us we had to become friends so we could talk about it all so we just did, after a while of course but its been like 2 months now I think."
"When?" My mom asked.
"You heard it, somewhere in the second half of January."
"No Sora, when as in like when did you even talk?"
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