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I Was the Permanent Minority at Home Chapter 10
The commotion at the gate didn't last long. After the guards fired a warning shot, Mom, Dad, Jasmine, and Jonathan left with their tails between their legs.I later heard that when they got home, Jonathan was unable to repay his debts, and one of his creditors broke his leg. Dad fell completely ill and became bedridden, needing someone to care for him. Jasmine couldn't stand the chaos at home. She quickly found herself a boyfriend from out of town and ran away with him. She never came back.The family that had once maintained a facade of harmony through democratic votes finally fell completely apart. After years of blaming and complaining, they finally learned what it felt like to have things taken away from them and to be abandoned.As for me, I never paid attention to their lives again.Five years later, at a launch site in the Northwest Podin Desert, a silver-white rocket pointed toward the heavens."Fire!"At the command from the control room, the rocket erupted with a ma
I Was the Permanent Minority at Home Chapter 9
I put on my thick windbreaker and followed the guard toward the main gate.A tall barbed-wire fence surrounded the entrance, with yellow security tape stretched beyond it. The wind howled, whipping loose snow across the ground.About 30 feet away, I saw them. Dad was bundled in a thick down jacket, shivering violently from the cold. Mom's face was bright red from the wind, while Jonathan hunched his shoulders and stomped his feet repeatedly.When they saw me walk out, they froze for a moment.I was wearing the facility's army green uniform. My hair was shaved short. The wind and sand had roughened my skin, and my shoulders had grown noticeably broader. I was no longer the timid second son who wore torn old clothes."Josh! Josh!" Mom was the first to react. She rushed to the fence, tears and snot streaming down her face. "We finally found you! You little brat! Why did you come to this miserable place?" She sobbed bitterly.But I felt nothing."What are you doing here?" I
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Professor Campbell paused for a moment, then smiled. "I see. It's a good vote." He patted my shoulder and said, "Go check the equipment in Sector D. You're in charge today.""Yes, sir."I tightened my grip on the shovel and headed toward the laboratory. The winter wind was fierce, but I didn't take a single step back.Just before the New Year holidays, the Hayes family had their biggest fight yet.Jonathan's startup finally collapsed completely. Not only had he failed to make money, but he now owed investors more than 300 thousand dollars.Debt collectors started calling the house. Someone even sprayed "Pay Your Debts" in red paint along the apartment hallway.Dad's blood pressure spiked so badly that he ended up in the hospital. Mom sat beside his bed, wiping away tears.She finally couldn't hold back and said to Jasmine, "Jas, don't you have some savings from birthdays and your allowance? Give some of it to Jon to help him get through this."Jasmine took a step backward and
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Mom couldn't remember how she got home. When she pushed open the front door, Dad was sitting on the couch, smoking. The living room was thick with cigarette smoke."Did you find him?" Without turning around, Dad asked impatiently.Mom said nothing. She absentmindedly walked to the coffee table and placed the photocopied confirmation letter they had gotten from Mr. Lawson on top of it."What's this?" Dad picked up the document and glanced at it. Cigarette ash fell onto his pant leg, but he didn't even notice."Northwest… National classified research program?" He shot to his feet, his voice rising several octaves. "That's impossible! How could he qualify for something like this?"Just then, Jonathan staggered in through the front door, reeking of alcohol. He had spent the afternoon trying to salvage his business by meeting with investors. But in the end, he'd been humiliated by having a drink thrown in his face."Dad, don't look at that!" Jonathan snatched the paper and ripped
I Was the Permanent Minority at Home Chapter 6
The freshman registration area at the local teachers college was packed. Jonathan and Mom stood in the middle of the crowd, both sweating under the heat."Mom, are you sure Josh never showed up?" Jonathan tugged irritably at his collar."I already asked the counselor. They said no student named Joshua Hayes ever enrolled," Mom replied, her face pale.The past three months had been a disaster for my family.With one less person listed in the household registration and insufficient collateral to secure financing, Jonathan's business loan application had been rejected by the bank. Unable to pay the rent for his office space, he'd been kicked out and forced to run his startup from home.Jasmine had finally gotten her wish and converted my old bedroom into a walk-in closet. But she soon discovered that there was nobody to wake up at 6:00 am every morning to iron her clothes anymore. There was no one to carry her online shopping packages up six flights of stairs.Dad's beloved coff
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"What… What is this?"Dad shot to his feet so fast that the household registration documents nearly slipped from his hands.Hearing the commotion, Mom rushed out of the kitchen. "Honey, what's wrong?"She leaned over to take a look, then froze. "Transferred out? Josh has transferred out of our household? Where did he transfer to?"Jonathan gulped. "I just looked more carefully. It says he's been transferred to a confidential facility somewhere in the Northwest.""A confidential location?" Dad's brows furrowed. "He's a kid who just graduated high school. Why is he going to a confidential facility?"At that moment, Jasmine emerged from the bathroom with a face mask on."Oh, come on. Why is everyone freaking out? He's obviously scared we'll make him attend the teachers college, so he's pretending to run away from home. He's probably just working in some factory somewhere. As if he'd qualify to be assigned to some confidential facility."Her words seemed to calm Dad slightly. He
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