The Bruises No One Saw

Santa has everything - his dads' love, his siblings' adoration, perfect scores, and the smile everyone wants to be near. What no one sees is what he pays to keep it.

Neo used to be sweet. Caring. The perfect boyfriend. Now his love comes with insults whispered too low for teachers to hear, bruises hidden under long sleeves, and money emptied from Santa's wallet just to keep him calm.

No one notices. No one, except Perth.

Perth has everything too, but different. A loud group of friends - Pond, Phuwin, Joong, Dunk, Boom, Aou - all of them annoyingly in love and coupled up. Perth is the only single one. Girls never lasted more than a week with him anyway, and he thought that was just how he was.

Until he really looked at Santa. The boy in his class who was slowly being destroyed right in front of everyone, and no one was seeing it.

This is the story of the boy who thought he had to bleed to be loved, and the boy who finally decided to look close enough to see the bruises.