After the Scars, I Found the Sunlight

After my stepbrother discovered the secret that I liked him.

He sent me to a conversion center.

“You’re disgusting, liking your own brother.”

After I came out, he led the bullying against me.

Only when he realized I no longer liked him did he regret it.

He knelt in front of me and begged me to keep liking him.

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“You’re disgusting, liking your own brother.”

Adrian Gray threw the diary where I had hidden my feelings straight into the fire.

With red-rimmed eyes, I tried to explain, “It’s not like that, Adrian…”

Adrian flicked the cigarette butt in his hand onto my hand.