*41* Standing up against father

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“Great.  Then you can never come back here.  This is no longer your home now that you have decided to betray us”.

“I have never betrayed you, father, but if you think so, I have no right to question your opinion.  Goodbye P'Mile. Have a nice life and pray that nobody will come to seek avenge”.

Fourth walked out of his father's office with the grace he had observed in Gemini, a benevolent smile still plastered on his face.  He was smiling long after he left the building and got into his car.  He started the engine and set off to the apartment rented by Norawit.  He didn't know where else he could go.  While driving, he tried his best not to let tears obscure his view in front of him, so as not to accidentally cause an accident, but when he stopped at a red light, something inside him broke.  Gemini taught him how to be strong, Fourth was mad at himself for not being able to be as strong as Gem.

He placed both hands on the steering wheel but he didn't see the view in front of him anymore.

“This was never my home, father”. He said, and his cruel memory brought back a memory from his childhood.  P'Mile never stopped being cruel and terrifying, never stopped causing suffering and killing.  Being a mafioso was too ingrained in him, he had been a part of it for too long.  That evening, eight-year-old Fourth brought home a small, gray kitten.

“Look what I found on the street, dad!  I'll keep it, okay?  His name will be Ming. My Mi!”  He called out laughing from the gate.  The kitten looked hungry and scared, but its fur was clean and soft to the touch.  Little Fourth had already imagined that he would feed this kitten himself, take care of it, and sleep with it, and this vision filled him with happiness and warmed his little baby heart.  He was smiling from ear to ear, stroking the soft fur of the kitten he had loved from the first moment he saw it.

But something bad must have happened that day.  Apo wasn't home at all, and Mile was prowling the entire villa like a mighty, menacing lion.  Fourth was still too young to understand and notice that it was best to stay out of Mile's way on this particular day.  It was the day when P'Mile tried to "work honestly" and entered the tender. Fourth had no idea what the tender was about, but it must have been something very important, because his father had been shouting at everyone all morning, picking on everything, he didn't like anything, and even the smallest thing could throw him off balance. Fourth didn't know that P'Mile had lost the tender, and what's worse, it caused an audit to be sent to the office he was managing at the time.

“Not now, I don't have time”. He pushed his son away brutally, without even looking at him.  “Get out of my way, I'm busy”.

Little Fourth was too little to understand that when his father was in such a mood, he should immediately get out of his sight.  Little Fourth just wanted to show off his new friend to his dad.  He was so excited and happy!

“But daddy, look, it's my kitty!  I'll take care of him myself, okay?”

P'Mile glanced at the furball, and he seemed to sense that something was up.  The kitten snorted and hissed as Mile approached them.

“There will be no nasty, smelly furs in this house!” Mile shouted, and before Fourth could react, he yanked the kitten out of his tiny hands.  The cat started scratching and struggling, but it had no chance.

“Dad!  Let him go!  It hurts him!”  Fourth shouted and tried to free the unfortunate animal from his father's iron grip.

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