"I'm okay." He wasn't. He pressed his head against the fridge and closed his eyes, fighting down his temper. He just wanted to break the fucking fridge and burn this shithole to the ground. Eomma would have hated that things were like this. He let her down, he should have been here not to let it happen but he wasn't. "I'm sorry, Tae. I fucked up. I didn't mean it. I just couldn't be here."

Not with eomma not here. He took a deep breath and forced a smile on his face, coming back over to Tae and trying to work out where to start. "When was the last time you went outside, Tae-ah? You're not going to kindergarten?" That was really bad. "Do you ... do you get to go to the park?"