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Alex's Outburst

作者: Rejoice Ezeh
last update 最終更新日: 2025-11-01 02:15:53

Alex's POV

I pretend to be asleep when Grandma Margaret leaves.

But I am not asleep. I am listening. Trying to understand.

Mistress. That is what Grandma called Mom. I do not know what that word means but I know it is bad. I know it from the way Grandma said it. Like Mom is something dirty. Something wrong.

Mom is not wrong. Mom is the best person I know.

But everyone keeps saying bad things about her. Grandma. Kids at school. Even Dad used to say mean things before we all moved in together.

I do not understand adults. They say they love me but then they fight about me. They say they want what is best for me but then they make me choose between them.

I just want them to stop.

The next morning I do not want to go to school.

"Come on, buddy," Dad says. "You will be late."

"I do not feel good."

Mom touches my forehead. "You do not have a fever. What hurts?"

Everything hurts. My chest. My head. My heart.

But I cannot say that. So I say nothing.

They make me go to school anyway.

At recess,
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