"A closed mouth don't get fed
Daddy always said
But a closed mouth doesn't get beatings either
Thought his son."
- Charlotte Écrivain
Yuri's walls are thin, so he hears the unspeakable.
He hears his mother's pleas, his father's groans, and the unmistakable sound of two breaking hearts- his and his mother's.
Yuri doesn't know what to do. This happens all the time.
It's not rape if they are married, right?
Yuri doesn't know. So, he buries his head under his pillow in hopes of blocking everything out.