I don't understand but I love you

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for this book, you can listen to:

I Don't Understand But I Love You - SEVENTEEN

Wouldn't Change a Thing - demi lovato (when it gets to angst)

It was mid-autumn, and all the students were on Thanksgiving break. The wind outside blew the leaves. Around 1 A.M, Taehyun's door slammed open. "Hey Taehyun, wake up!", Taehyun slowly opened his eyes to see his dad holding a liquor bottle. "I'm up..." "Then get the hell up and make me some food!", his dad told him as he yanked Taehyun off the bed, causing him to fall off the bed. Taehyun tried his best to stand up, but just waking up, it was hard. His legs were heavy, and he was dizzy, "Please... give me a minute." His dad slapped him, causing the latter to thud on the floor again, "Get the hell up right now, or I'll punish you with something even worse."

His dad dragged him out of the room pulling him by his hair and only stopped when he reached the stairs, "Now get in the kitchen and do something." Taehyun nodded, tears running down his face while he struggled to get downstairs, his legs aching. When he got downstairs, he saw his stepmom lying on the couch, watching TV again.

"Why can't she cook,she's your wife..", Taehyun sighed as he walked into the kitchen rummaging through the fridge. After around 45 minutes, he finished making the food and took it to the dining table, "Here, can I go to sleep now?" His dad looked up at him and scoffed, "What the hell is this supposed to be?Food?"

Taehyun was confused, "What are you talking about? This is what you told me to make for you..?" Taehyun's dad grabbed him by the hair and threw him, causing him to land against the wall." Are you talking back to me?!" Taehyun looked up confused, "I-Isn't that how a conversation works?.." Taehyun's dad raised his eyebrows and slapped Taehyun across his face.

"Who do you think you are?! I raised you and this is how you pay me back?! Snarky remarks?!" Taehyun just looked at the ground, not caring as he had heard this many times before. His dad kept on continuously slapping him, but he didn't care. He was so tired and used to it that he didn't even try to fight back. He has tried many times before but it only led him to wounds all over his body.

You might be wondering, why hasn't he told the police or contacted CPS. Well, he had too many memories in this house. He didn't want to grow up in an orphanage. Ever since his mom died when he was 8, all he could do was get used to it, he's only 16. Him telling wouldn't resolve into something good. He decided to deal with it until he turned 18, that way he could keep the house and the money his mom left for him. Maybe that's why his dad and step-mom don't like him. I mean he isn't surprised. His mom was an actress and a doctor, but she died of heart disease in the end.

The only people he loved were his mom and his best friend, Yeonjun. Yeonjun didn't know of the abuse that Taehyun went through, but still, he was there for him whenever he cried.

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Taehyun still had his head hanging low while he received slaps to his face, but he didn't care, he stopped doing that when he turned 13. "That's why you're useless, just like your mother.", his dad said.

When he said those words, Taehyun immediately looked up, with hate and rage in his eyes. He immediately slapped his dad. Causing him to fall back, landing on the food. He immediately screamed from the food burning his arm, "What the fuck?! Do you want to die?" "I don't care! If you EVER talk about my mom again, I will make your lifespan decrease till the very last second!" Taehyun pushed his dad out of the way as he went up the stairs crying,"Mom, come back, please.."