She gasped, "H-he has it! Didn't you hear? He's cursed! God gave him his eyes to warn us all." The woman shivered in pure terror. What she was referring to was Felix's rare condition of heterochromia. Unfortunately for Felix, when people see something different from their standard of whom that stereotypical person everyone "should be," they will judge. This includes him having one warm roasted cocoa eye and the other a piercing ice blue. Society in Yurolin was quite different from what he was accustomed to.
A frown planted itself on his parents' faces, the roots etching deep lines. They waited in silence, the woman still pressing herself into the cold iron wall as if she could melt into it.
Somewhere along the way, the woman stepped out and the family continued their journey to their new room. An awkward silence hung above them. When they unpackaged some silverware and plates, dinner followed and it was never broken. Felix became confused. Why do people think like that? How is he so different? What's wrong with his eye color? His parents hate it now, too, don't they?
"How is the job you applied for going? Did you get it?" Felix asked his father, trying to drown out his unspoken concerns with a conversation. Not looking him in the eye, he nodded. So much for family bonding and his parents not caring. Apparently, their image of themselves means a lot more than he does. No one else made a move to have any form of communication.
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EXCEPTance//Jilix (OT8)
Short StoryFelix moves to Yurolin and people aren't exactly accepting of his heterochromia... Jisung finds him crying in his grandma's botanical garden and shows him self-acceptance. Will Felix love himself after all? - a short story with short chapters - for...
