I'm going to tell you a secret. I have an ability, no, more like a curse. I can tell when someone is in extreme depression or pain by the scars on their back. 

Not everyone has it but many teenagers and adults got it though. The most common is one scar. Two is a few. Three is rare. I only encounter it twice. Once, in winter, I went to the beach with my family. The water was icy cold and the waves was high so swimming was not allowed. There weren't many people as it was early in the morning. But there was a woman with three scars on her back. I was 12 and it was very shocking. I don't know what to do. I never knew what to do.

When I was a kid, I used to think it was an accessories that some grown people have. I thought it was funny, but I never point it out. Until I was nine, and one of my friend got one on his back. I asked him what happened and he started to cry and tell the teacher I was being mean to him. He lost his mother, I found out later.

I was too dumbfounded. I realized then that no one else could see the scar. I thought I was a freak. I looked it up on the internet but nothing helps. I stop giving it any mind.

Until that day on the beach. I was eyeing the woman the whole time we were there. She just buried her head in her folded legs. Then suddenly, she looked up and stare at the ocean before her. She slowly stood on her barefoot and started taking small, stumbling steps towards the sea. 

I was supposed to know. I should've see