"Can't you just homeschool me, Alderic?" William asked Alderic, and Kai looked at her brother with a familiar emotion in her eyes. She was even in that phase once, where she preferred homeschooling more than attending school physically. So, I guessed William was also a victim of bullying.
And not to mention, he called his father— Alderic. When Kai came to the house for the first time, she was hesitant about calling us fathers but she never once called us by our first names. Maybe it was because she was so much younger than William at that time. Only seven years old. And William is thirteen. With trauma of years.
Alderic often told me that the longer a person suffers from trauma, the more mature they become. In a wrong way. They lose their childlike happiness. Their maturity comes at th
