Different One
Eps. 9 Rage of Darcy's Peak

Jorell stared at the water droplets dripping from the sky and soaked the earth ground he was treading.

“When will the rain stop?” Jorell looked up at the sky. For almost 60 minutes he was waiting in front of an empty house to wait for the rain to stop.

He rolled his eyeballs glancing at the circular watch on his right hand. Time has shown almost afternoon. If he doesn't come home soon, his father will find him.

“I have to go home now.” Luckily the rain subsided, although there was still a drizzle.

Jorell ran after taking off his shoes, because the road in front of him was flooded by ten inches. It was more comfortable for him to run barefoot in the middle of the water like this.

Clack! The door of the house opened just as he was about to pull the doorknob.

Darcy poked out from behind the door. His jawbone looks stiffened, the look of his eyes look sharp welcome the return of Jorell.

“Where have you been? Staying home after school. Wet again, your body and your bag. What exactly do you do with Xavier every day after school?” asking Darcy in a high tone was also intimidating.

“I do the job, Dad.”

“What task are you doing now, give it to me let me see if you really do the task or just play?”

Jorell just kept quiet, because he was lying and there was no job he was doing, so he couldn't show it.

A loud slap landed on Jorell's cheek. The white face immediately flushed.

Jorell could only endure the pain while holding onto his fierce throbbing cheek.

“You little betandal! You are the trash in this house. You lie every day when all your grades are bad. You don't deserve to be part of this family!” Again in a moment of rage, Darcy slaps back the other side of Jorell's cheek.

Jorell squeezed both of his hands tightly. Not only the heat and pain in his body that he felt this time, but his heart felt pinched and then crushed to the ground by Darcy's words, as well as Darcy's actions.

Darcy's anger this time hit him badly.

“Did you think of me as your son all this time? I didn't ask to be treated the same, but at least Dad humanized me.” Either the courage from where Jorell got this time until he dared to reveal all his heart, all the burdens of life that squeezed him until 15 years.

Darcy stared at Jorell. It was not that he realized what his mistake was, but it instead ignited his emotions.

“Jorell, how dare you fight your father!” Darcy pulls Jorell's collar.

He then threw the small body down to fall down after hitting the wall hard. Not only that, even Darcy kicked him quite hard, also hit him. Somehow what was seen at that time was not Jorell, but Detective Carl's face. Makes him want to continue to torture.

Akhs! What can little Jorell do? There was nothing he could do to retaliate or fight back when he was beaten up like that.

“Am I really your son? Will a father beat his own son and kill his own? Kill me now, Dad. Kill me, if I don't deserve to be in this family.” Jorell was even challenging, to be honest he did not want to live again for a long time.

If he had to die now that's okay.

“Dad! Stopit! What did you do to Brother?” aroon shouted from behind loudly.

She is shocked to see her own father molesting her brother to the terrible condition of Jorell.

“Why did Dad stop? Hit me harder until my ribs are crushed. Isn't that what you wanted? Dad wanted me dead after all this time making me moons. Kill me now, Dad. I'm tired.” Jorell looked at Darcy with dewy eyes.

As strong as his energy he held back his sadness so as not to come out which only showed his weakness. He could have taken all of his father's punches or kicks, but he couldn't have done it all. After all, that man was still his father.

“Dad, no! Don't do that! Stop Dad!” Aroon held back Darcy who was about to re-laid her tightly clenched hand.

Darcy jerks Aroon's hand violently. His anger subsided with the arrival of his biological son. He left soon after.

“Sister, Brother okay?” Aroon helped Jorell stand up, then broke him into walking all the way to the room.

“You don't have to comfort me Aroon. Go awayl. I want to be alone now,” said Jorell. Really he did not intend to expel his sister, just wanted to calm himself.

Aroon then exited Jorell's room and closed the door. He could only waste a deep breath on his brother's suffering.

***

Jorell locked himself up into the night. He hasn't been out of the room since. In fact, Betsy who could usually persuade him this time could not coax him out.

In the room she was crying. He did not want anyone to see his tears spilled, tears that showed his fragility and weakness.

“Dad, why have you always treated me differently? Though all this time I have always been obedient to you, I have always helped you, I am also devoted to you. Then what's my fault?”

Jorell wiped his tears with the back of his hand. Her chest really felt tight.

“Is it a mistake I was born in this family? Why don't you want me? Why?” Jorell took out all of his heart that he had been damning all along.

He was curled up in a corner of the room with a dark light that he deliberately turned off. Because all this time his heart was always dark and nothing illuminated. His heart is always cold. In the darkness, make him a little calm.

“If I may and if I can change things, I don't want to be born in this family I don't want to be your son, Dad. The son you always tormented,” lamented Jorell.

He leaned his back against the wall while looking up blankly.

“Jorell Watson ... Jorell Aderson ..” Among the sadness and chaos of his heart, Jorell recalled the name again.

“Is there really only one Jorell? And only one is real between those two names?” Suddenly Jorell was enlightened.

That means there could be a possibility if he's not Darcy's son.

“Am I not a father's son?” Jorell said the word himself, even though his heart was claustrophobic just by saying it.

He observed again the green bracelet from Lucerne Hospital he was holding.

“Do I have to check it myself and make sure, am I really his biological child or not?”

Jorell reviewed a wry smile after saying that. There was a fear that came to his heart thinking he was not Darcy's son.

“Whatever it is, I'll find out the truth.”