One of these days, your dad is just going to stop coming home. He doesn't seem to call these days. Your schoolwork is getting fucking terrible and you dropped how many ranks? Are you failing on purpose? Think daddy will pay you some attention if you ruin your life- -because I've already ruined your life and he hasn't caught on. Sometimes I wonder what it'd take for anybody to notice I'm not you. I guess that shows how little anybody cares if you can be so easily replaced by me.
Few days of silence… And here it was again- Sentences he occasionally kept hearing for years, the same words repeated ad nauseam, aiming at his weak spots, and violently jabbing into insecurities.
And after all that time spent on hearing similar remarks, it maybe seemed to be easier to ignore- But it wasn’t. Ryou felt as his body tense a little with every spoken syllable. He didn’t want to hear that kind of shit again. Yet, covering ears wouldn’t change a thing.
Albino glared at the Spirit. Somehow- looking straight at him was harder than usual- and his sight ran away as soon as their eyes met. “He is busy with work- Unlike you who only play stupid video games all day…” Ryou muttered under breath, interrupting the other’s talk. The reply lacking power.
His lips twitched after a long pause, just like he was about to say another thing. But this time- he didn’t.
