Part II| What's Broken Can Be Mended

"I know they say we're broken, holding on to a love like this. Well if we're broken, I don't wanna be fixed. And my heart is open knowing that you are worth the risk. Well if we're broken, I don't wanna be fixed."— Sam Tsui.

Chapter Theme Song: 'Fixed' by Sam Tsui.

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Blaze

The hospital is a familiar place for me.

I would often come here to treat the bruises caused by my late psychotic mother. That's when they were too severe to be dressed by a household first aid kit. And whenever the doctors would ask my father how I sustained the injuries, he would come up with some dumb, illogical explanation. Falling off a swing, running and toppling over—as if that would suffice a wide split in a child's head.

It was either the doctors were dumb or lazy to not have realized how absolutely silly his reports were, or the law and care systems were—still are— just plain incompetent. Either way, these factors aided in my final hypothesis that humanity is fake, disloyal, and unjust. The bad prosper wh