Secrets! Secrets! And many more secrets!
This was something that everyone on the planet, rich or poor, had in common.
This also applied to my family. 
As I grew older, I became more interested in delving deeper into trying to learn for myself what my parents were hiding from me. 
I had not imagined, however, that the farther I delved into the issue, the more questions I began to ask myself.
I began to consider how heinous and horrifying all of these family secrets would appear to the public if they were ever revealed.
And why was I tempted and curious in the first place?
But what else could a normal son have done in such a situation?
Should I have minded my own business? 
That was completely impossible.
But, considering how things had evolved by the time everything became clear to me, I began to wonder.
Why was this the case?
My curiosity side got the best of me and placed me in a position I still regret to this day.
Would I choose the same road if I had to start from scratch?
I am still puzzled about the answer.

OUR FAMILY'S DIRTY AND SCANDALOUS SECRETS

“Dude, what are you thinking about?” a young man wearing red from head to toe asked me. 


This was the young man who I was close to in Upia. He couldn’t be considered to be my best friend. 


Apart from his fashion sense, everything was okay with him. And since I was just a friend, I found it not my business to be concerned with how he loved dressing himself. 


“Just thinking about this weird guy, I saw again last week,” I answered with a depressing look on my face. 


“Um. Did you offend him by any chance?” 


“No, I don’t even know him and yet everything about him just bothers me,” I answered as I clenched my fists just recalling him. 


When my friend heard that, he hurriedly sat down across from me and I knew that he was in the melon-eating mode. 


“Is it that you are finally now into guys?” my friend’s taunting voice sounded making me glare at him warningly. 


“You…. Stop that!” that was something that I didn’t want to hear at all. 


CHAPTER 49