Yuna returned to her routines, the ritual of tea, the slow catalogue of neighborly kindnesses she kept in a small notebook on the table. There were no grand declarations. There was a soft, steady resumption of living that felt like an act of resistance. Once, I caught her scribbling at the edge of the page: “Say no when it matters.”

I believed her.

I tried to tell myself that speaking up would fix things. I filed complaints anonymously at school and left messages for the principal. The responses were slow and bordered on unhelpful bureaucracy: we’ll look into it, we take this seriously. Meanwhile, Riku continued to insinuate himself into our life, adjusting his approach like a surgeon refining technique. The stakes for my mother were different—practical needs and fear of shame made her cautious. She feared the scandal, the gossip, the idea that we couldn’t manage our own problems. I found her hesitating at the brink of decisions, weighing whether resistance would cost us more than compliance.

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