At some point, I had fallen asleep so by the time I woke up again it was in the morning and I could hear people talking around me, I slowly opened my eyes groaning because the light was shining on my face, I turned my head to the other side and then blinked my eyes until the blurriness faded.

"Hyun Chin-Hae?" I looked over when someone called my name and saw that it was my mother who called me she looked so happy to see that I was awake but I found myself just staring at her, I was confused why is she so happy to see me, was it even real because if she was really happy to see me how could she have given up on me just like that in my last life, I sighed, it seemed that I cared more than I thought I did.

The thoughts in my head obviously couldn't be heard by the people in the room so they mistook it as me still being in shock, the doctor came over and checked my eyes when I blinked and looked at him he let out a sigh "it seems that although Chin-Hae is no longer in shock, he is still a bit confused so we should let him rest for a few more minutes and then you can talk to him one at a time, as for Officers Hong and Ki you can question him later in the day when he is ready to talk to you."

The doctor checked on me one last time before leaving the room with the nurse and I looked around to look at the people in the room, I could see my parents, teacher, and the two officers that the doctor just spoke to, they all looked at me and then my mother stepped forward, she sat on the chair next to my bed and reached out her hand to take mine.

I had to fight my reflex so I didn't pull my hand away from her, I know I had gotten over what they had did but that didn't mean I would forgive or want anything to do with them, the thought of them being in the same area as me already irritated me so touching was obviously a no, I bit my cheek and then looked at her teary eyes, disgust swelling in my stomach at how good she was acting.

My eyes moved from her face and dropped to her stomach, in my last life I heard that not long after I ended up in prison was when my mother's stomach had started showing, which means they didn't know that she was pregnant at this point in time, she didn't know about that little demon that caused them to abandon me.

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In my last life after in the year that I spent hanging around the area where they lived, I had many stories about his tyranny and the sickening things that he had done and I also heard the stories that showed me my parents had become like the people that had made them abandon their son, they were no better than those people after earning that money, they became the same type of people they despised, I nearly laughed at the memory of them always preaching for me not to become like those people.

"Hypocrites," I mumbled and my mother didn't seem like she heard me.

"Chin-Hae," I looked at her face and she smiled "are you okay, baby?" I just stared at her and forced myself to nod "good, that's good, I was so scared when someone called and told me that you were in the hospital, my first thought was that you were hurt," I watched as tears ran down her face "I almost collapsed, I'm so happy that you're okay, I don't know... what I'd do... if anything happened to you."

She started sobbing and I just stared at her, I looked into her eyes and the pain in her eyes were clear, she wasn't acting, these were her true feelings, but knowing this didn't bring me any sort of happiness if she was in so much pain from them just calling her to the hospital how could she give up on me so easily, how could she abandon me for money and never even give me a single call in all that time that I was in prison.

"Chin-Hae!" I looked at my dad who rushed over he held my face and started rubbing at it "it's okay Chin-Hae, don't cry we're here, you're safe." I didn't even know I had started to cry until he came over and I began to sob, I wasn't crying because of what happened but because of how worried they were, if they were so worried how could they abandon me, how could they just forget me like that?

I sobbed so hard that he leaned over and pulled me into his embrace I sobbed so hard my chest was hurting, I gripped onto his shirt and sobbed until no tears came out, everyone stared at me in confusion and they called in the doctor, I refused to let go of my dad so he had to go to the other side to check on me, he smiled and pulled out a syringe and soon I was feeling drowsy.

I felt my dad rubbing my back until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and slipped into unconsciousness. The thought that came with me was that the only reason they abandoned me was because of that so-called baby brother of mine, if only he didn't exist...