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Content Warning: This story includes bullying, violence, and the failure of adults to intervene. If the flashbacks in The Glory were triggering, this will be too. Themes of trauma and grief are explored through accountability and emotional truth-not glorified. -------------------- History doesn't repeat- it hunts. Min-su died last winter. They called it suicide. But it wasn't just the fall. It was everything that came before. I didn't push him. But I bruised him. Laughed with them. Looked away when he bled. I didn't pull him back either. Now I haunt the hallway- guilty, unseen, remembered only by silence. Then she arrives. Hye-jin. Quiet. Sharp. Familiar in ways I wish she wasn't. They close in- laughing, loud, cruel. She doesn't look away. She's already marked. I see it in their eyes. And in mine. I didn't stop it last time. I didn't want to. This time, I move. They think she's alone. They're wrong. I'm still here. And I won't watch it happen again.
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