(2) The Brother, Eugene

Hari lay motionless on the stairs leading to the annex. When he saw her, his chest sat down.

"Wake up, Hari!"

He hated this child, but he didn't want her to die. Lying quietly, the face of his younger sister passed away from her body for a moment.

"Hari! Hari!"

He was caughting an excruciating fear and shook her whole body.

The eyelids that were locked are standing up and opened, and the purple color in them come to his view. It was at that moment that revealed her eyes.

The moment she opened her eyes, she screamed. He thought she was really dying like this, and he was glad she didn't die, so he lingered inside, but in the end, Eugene said nothing.

And it was also because of the eyes of the child he encountered next moment.

"Brother Eugene?"

Hari looked at him somewhere with a blinding feeling, as if Eugene really became his brother. At that moment, Eugene stopped looking and hardened.

"When did you rejuvenate, brother?"

But the child began to line up strange crap towards him.

"Or are you Eugene's son?"

As she doubted, she narrowed her eyes narrowly and he heard her muttering, and Eugene shouted without his knowledge.

"What are you talking about? Are you out of your mind?"

Somewhere, it was different. Then, it was the first time in the past few months that Hari's eyes were met with him.

Was this the child who faced the eyes of others in her way?

Anyway, Eugene was in alert and brought Hari into the house. Cabel, who was walking through the first floor, was tired of finding a toy and was surprised to find them first.

The problem was with Erich.

"Brother, I…."

Erich, who saw Hari came in with Eugene, with his eyes wide open, and soon he said with trembling body.

"I was wrong?"

He was still a 7-year-old child. Even if there was malice in another person, it would not have been recognized that his action would lead to death.

It was clear that this time, too, he just wanted to get Hari out of their house, and he would have never realized the idea that a child who had been forced out of this

place might die.

"Do you know it can't be hide completely from my father and mother? This time your prank was too bad."

It wasn't okay to dismiss it as a "bad prank" and as a "brother", but once again, the treatment of Hari was urgent. Scolding Erich would not be too late.

So Eugene had his brothers bring the people they needed and then threw more firewood into the fireplace.

It was natural for the three brothers to get called by their parents who returned that day.

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"Yes. I heard that this happened because Hari ran away from Erich's mischief and went out."

Eugene paused at his father's words. He clearly told his father what happened today.

However, what the father said in a position to scold the three brothers was slightly different from what Eugene explained.

"Yeah! Right."

Only Cabel, who did not know the inside of the prank, stood and shook his head.

"No matter how you do it, Did you mean that no one know when she went out alone and passed out that long time? Eugene!"

His mother first pursued Eugene, the eldest son.

The moment he met his father eyes, Eugene realized that his father was trying to hide the fact because he was worried that his mother would be shocked.

"Sorry, Mother. I wasn't aware of it because I was studying with Hudson."

"Cabel! You don't even know what happened to your sister, and you're only focusing on toys. The toys are seized for a week"

"Hey! This is Erich fault anyway."

"I think all the toys in your room can be seized!"

"Uh, Mom!"

"Erich."

At the moment his name was called, Erich's shoulders shook. Erich was scared from the beginning and couldn't say anything.

"What the hell do you usually do to make Hari escape and run away from you?"

Have they ever felt anything after seeing bad things or something like that? Erich began to shake his body and tears started falling from his eyes.

At other times, he would have cried to Eugene next to him and asked for support, but now he just stood up with tears falling, he was already deeply aware of his fault.

It seemed to be like that.

"You should never have do this again."

His mother, who doesn't know that Hari was in great danger due to her son's fault, stops scolding that much, and massaging her foreheads. She stand up from her seat.

"You should take a break."

"I'm not going to take a break. I have to go to Hari."

After his parents left the room, Eugene quietly approached Erich, who was still crying, and hugged his shoulder.

"I, I. I just hate that she's at my house. So.. I…"

Erich cried for a long time since then, and Cabel became bloated next to him, shut his mouth and didn't say anything.

'Don't do it again, you're not alone.'

He held back the word. After that, Hari became strange. Is she really want to die?

She go out again in a blizzard outside with a thin clothes, she look at his eyes and express her embarrassingly embarrassing

intentions, and even brazenly claim to bring her something to eat.

Besides, for some reason, Eugene heart was easily swaying by her like that.

"Brother Eugene, it's so slow to see you now. Can't you take this? Can't you? Yes, yes? Yes?"

It was the same since he went to an unprovoked provocation and forgot the first purpose and wrestled with an

unpretentious body.

"Well, who is slow?"

The next moment, Eugene, who grabbed Hari and laid her with her mouth open hardened like a stone when their eyes met.

When he think about it, since he first discovered Hari in the white snow, she, who couldn't speak without lowering her eye, has changed now. Why the hell?

Then, it seemed that in front of Hari was the first he seem to be childish in this way. In the meantime, he had never played with his brothers in this way.

"You got along with your younger brothers and I think you're starting to act like them. Apologize to Hari right now."

After a while, Eugene was confused by his father, who entered the room.

Immediately after leaving the room, his father said, wrapping Eugene's cheeks that he had just hit by hand.

"I'm sorry. In front of Hari, I thought it would be better not to speak more about the candy," he said.

His father was worried that Hari would know about the candy his mother had given her.

"Yeah. You know everything. In the meantime, You were carrying too heavy load by yourself on your shoulders."

When he heard that, Eugene was unhappy.

When he was told that he couldn't speak to anyone and complained the anxiety he was holding alone, his nose became sore and he wanted to bring out the weakest sound to his father for the first time.

However, his father's words were different from his expectations.

"Pretend you don't know."

"Now your mother has just returned to stability. As if you couldn't see and hear anything, pretend you don't know."

"But.."

"Of course I'm going to stop her as much as I can about that candy. But even when you seeing Hari eat it, Don't say anything."

His father whispered to him, and after

Eugene's shoulders had been knocked on twice, he turned his feet first.

Eugene stood alone and looked at his father's back. Crack. Soon his hands break the candy that had been in it.

He gripped his hand hard.

"Eugene. Yesterday, I heard that your father was getting angry."

The next day, while hid father was out, his mother visited his room.

"It was okay," He said.

"So that's why he hit your face."

As he stared at his mother's face touching his cheek as if upset, Eugene opened his mouth impulsively.

"Mother, why did you give Hari 'that candy'?"

Then she shook her head as if she had no idea.

"Is there any reason why I shouldn't give

her?"

"Mother, that's..."

Eugene raised his voice without knowing it, and then bite it and paused for a while. His voice that followed was divided as if he had rested a lot.

"That's a drug," he said, the yellow candy that hid mother gave to the sick Arina.

Eugene already knew what it was. The candy, which has a strong analgesic component, was a drug with serious addictive and side effects.

If a person continue to eat it, that person will eventually become an idiot who doesn't know anything….

"Hari is not Arina,"

Eugene remembered how sadly his mother cried in the room after she gave his sister that candy.

Arina's hurting so much every day and she couldn't heal with the bottle medicine instead, so….

He rather remember his mother crying and crying infinitely, giving the candy with trembling hands every evening, hoping that her daughter would forget the pain in the hallucinations.

"Oh, that a story from long ago."

She said to Eugene, and she couldn't have wanted to bring back that painful memory.

"I think you misunderstand me. That candy is not dangerous."

Eugene heard her still whispered to him as he looked at the face of his mother who was innocent.

"Give me that candy too."

"No, Eugene."

Then the mother scolded her son with a stern look.

"That's only for sick children."

"If you can't cope with your sick sister, I couldn't be able to give it to you."

Mother really confused Eugene as if she believed that the candy was a medicine

that would cure the sore. Eugene's black eyes began to shake.

Slowly, he think his fear was over. He thought it was getting better little by

little. He thought they were better than before…

But nothing has changed.

Just look, that they all pretending, everyone was covering each other's

eyes and covering up their bitter wounds to settle in reality. Just look at his 'Mother.'

Look at Cabel and Erich. And they still need a mother. He don't know what to do everyday. What he can do now is just pretending not to know everything?

"Okay Eugene?"

But Eugene couldn't say anything this

time.

"Yes, mother."

A mother who smiles like a flower toward him is really….

Because she looks happy enough so that it's hitting his chest.