Following

San ran to Tam, yelling, "Why did you make the girl leave? Especially after knowing she was domestically abused. Where could she go now?"

Tam calmly said, "Get your jacket."

San was confused, "Why?"

"We are following her," his older brother said plainly.

That was when something clicked in San's head, "Ohhh!" He realized as he ran back to the living room and took the jacket the girl folded.

Shortly after, the two brothers left the house. The sky had turned dark. The yellow street lights and the light from houses nearby were the only things that helped the streets from looking like total darkness.

Even after that time passed, they could still see the girl not far away from them.

She could only walk, no, slide her legs so slowly to keep her from falling.

Tam and San started following her, keeping a reasonable distance to keep their eyes on her. While Tam was stoic, San on the other hand, constantly worried that she would fall at any second.

"How do you know for sure that she is going back to her family?" San asked as they still following her.

Tam simply explained, "You could see she is very worried about her family getting in trouble from her not wanting us to call the cops despite how many times we asked. From that, I think she still loved those blood-related people of her very much. So there is a high chance she would just go home when there is nowhere to go."

They stopped walking as the girl had to hold the light pole on the sidewalk to breathe. She was completely alone on her walk back home. The entire time, no one stopped and offered help to her.

San couldn't bear seeing her so weak, "But don't you think it's cruel to let her walk like this the entire way home? You could have called a cab for her or something."

Tam looked at San, then pulled out his phone.

"What are you doing now?" San asked.

"Calling the cab," Tam answered.

"Why didn't you do that back at our house?"

...

"I didn't think of that," Tam admitted.

...

Ten minutes later, two cabs came, one for the girl, and the other for the brothers. 

"Young lady. I'm here for you," the driver called her.

The girl was confused, she looked around to see if he was talking to someone else.

"I'm talking to you, young lady. I got a call to pick you up and get you home. Get in."

The girl hesitated. Is this a new kidnapping trick she doesn't know about?

The driver said again, "You know. I already got paid. So if you don't get in, I'll just go pick up someone else then."

The girl looked at her legs which had been at their limit. She bit her lips. It was a scary thought to go in this suspicious car, but she couldn't bear the pain in her legs anymore.

"Wait... I'll get in," she said.

The driver could hear the shakiness in her voice, he looked at her closely, "Are you in pain? Do you need help getting in?"

She reluctantly nodded.

Shortly later, the two brothers saw the cab driver help the girl get in the cab and started driving away.

"Follow them please," San told their driver.

The cabs drove for about thirty minutes until they stopped. 

When Tam and San got out and saw what house the girl went inside, Tam commented, "I expected she would live in a shabby place, but this house is pretty normal."

As the first brother said. The house of the girl was not small or big. It was what others would consider for a middle-class family.

"Yeah, but the people in it aren't so normal," San added. "So... what now? We know where she lives. What do we do next?"

"We wait," Tam said shortly.

"Wait for what?" San asked.

Right at that moment he spoke, the brothers heard shouting and the sound of things crashing from the house.

"WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GO? ARE YOU HIDING FROM ME?"

"What the..." San was shocked. He turned to his older brother, terrified. "We could even hear that woman's voice from here. Is that the girl's mother?"

"Seems like it," Tam said. His expression was unchanged.

*CRASH!

"I... Is she hurting the girl right now!? We have to do something!" San said.

Tam didn't say anything. Instead, he quietly went up and observed around the house.

"What are you doing right now?" San asked and ran to Tam. "We don't have time! The girl could be in danger! Whatever idea you have, do it quick!"

Tam, still staying silent, raised his hand, telling San to be quiet. He then pointed at a window that he had found after observing the house.

San looked at where the finger was pointing. In that window, the two brothers could see the living room of the house. And in that living room, was the mother that was hitting the girl in plain sight.

"WHAT KIND OF MOT..." San was about to jump in the house but was held back by Tam. 

San looked over and saw that Tam had been recording everything inside that living room. "Since when...?" he uttered.

*CRASH!

As he was questioning when did Tam started recording, a huge crashing sound pierced his ears. He turned to the living room and was speechless.

The girl's forehead was spilling blood, and on the floor was a broken glass cup.

Tam knew his brother well. While still holding his phone stable to record everything clearly in one hand, his other hand was squeezing San's thighs, demanding his younger brother to hold his urge to burst into the house.

The two brothers then saw the girl's mother say something that they couldn't hear from outside the house. Then she followed by giving the girl some more slaps to the already beaten face. The entire time, the girl didn't move a bit or yell out of pain. From the outside looking in, it was like Tam and San was looking at a corpse.

That was when Tam hit the [Stop Recording] button and immediately called the police. 

"Hi officer. I want to report a case of domestic abuse. The victim is a minor and I have a recording as evidence. Ok... Ok..."

He then ran to the front of the house and read the address plate.

"The address is *** *** ********. Please come immediately, with an ambulance if possible. I could see the girl has bruises all over her body and I'm afraid she is in immediate danger.

Right... Ok... Yes, I didn't step into the house at all, just recording from the outside through the window. Ok... I will be waiting outside. Please come immediately."

San ran up to him after the call. "How long did they say they will be here?" he asked.

"About ten minutes," Tam said.

"That's too long! I have to do something! I..."

"San!" Tam slammed his hand on San's shoulder. It was the first time San saw an emotion from his brother's eyes.

"We can't break the law! If you go in, the mother could accuse us of intruding. That will only complicate the call I just made to the police. Any legal complication could be a risk for that mother to point the fault back to us for intruding, not her abusing the girl.

If truly want the girl to escape that hell hole, then stay put and wait for the police!"

San was stunned listening to Tam explaining the circumstances. He stood there, biting his lips and clenched his firsts. "But I can't just stay here and listen to those shouting."

His feet started moving.

"Where do you think you are going!?" Tam threatened.