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Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight
Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight
Author: Little Snowflake

Chapter 1

Author: Little Snowflake
The laughing, shrieking crowd around us went dead silent in an instant. Then the entire street erupted.

Tourists who'd been gleefully soaking each other seconds ago were now shoving and clawing their way in the opposite direction.

The kid's father stood frozen, staring at the chaos. Then he jabbed a finger at my face and snarled.

"What the hell are you talking about?

"Who's spraying acid? It's plain tap water! Here, look!"

He snatched the water gun from his daughter's hands and aimed it at the ground, ready to spray.

I didn't give him the chance to prove anything. I just raised my voice and shouted even louder.

"Run! He's about to spray acid everywhere!"

The crowd surged into a full panic. The young girl burst into terrified wails, and the man shot me a venomous glare as he scrambled to comfort her.

"Shut your mouth! One more word and I'll rip your tongue out, you hear me?"

A few guys who wanted to help pushed through the crowd. But before they could get close, the man swung the pressure gun around like a lunatic, sweeping it wildly at anyone who approached.

"Stay back! I'll spray anyone who comes near me!"

"Oh my God, he's really going to do it!"

"I think I smell something sharp, like acid! Everybody get back!"

"Pin him down! Don't let him hurt anyone! Somebody call 911!"

The harder he fought, the guiltier he looked to everyone watching. One of the young men who'd come to break things up lunged in, twisted his arm behind him, and locked an elbow around his neck in one clean motion.

"Let go of me! I live here! You, out-of-town tourists, think you can put your hands on a local?"

He thrashed against the hold.

That was when it happened, and nobody saw it coming. The girl, who'd been sobbing off to the side, suddenly pulled a switchblade from her pocket and drove it into the back of the young man's hand.

"That's what you get for bullying my daddy! Die!"

Blood ran down his hand and dripped onto the pavement. The man wrenched himself free in the confusion, clutched his daughter tight against his chest, and cast a wary glare around the circle of onlookers.

"Listen up, all of you. My wife is Sandra Kessler, the businesswoman!

"If you want to live, you'd better start apologizing right now. Once this gets sorted out, my wife will bury every last one of you!"

I covered my eye and took two steps forward. My voice stayed perfectly calm.

"You say it's tap water in that gun. Then spray your daughter with it. Go on, two squirts."

The man went rigid. His finger, still wrapped tight around the trigger, began to tremble. He looked down at the girl in his arms, then at the pressure gun in his hand.

"Spray her! If it's tap water, what are you so scared of?"

Someone in the crowd jeered, and though everyone kept their distance, the wave of accusations grew louder and louder.

"Weren't you just saying this young man made it all up to scam you? Then prove it! We're waiting!"

I kept my eyes locked on him. My left eye, flushed red from the blast of water, still throbbed with a dull ache. Tears and cold water ran together down my cheek.

I didn't wipe any of it away. I just sneered to myself, because even a pressure gun fired straight into the eye only caused a moment of pain.

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  • Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight   Chapter 9

    The host said, "Mr. Holloway, we've just received a video provided by the Southgate police department that has never been released to the public. I think you, and everyone watching at home, will find it very interesting."Derek froze. "What video?"Before he could say another word, my photo vanished from the studio screen. In its place was a surveillance recording.The footage was from the interrogation room at the Southgate precinct, timestamped the day of the incident.In the video, Sandra and Derek had been separated. A police officer walked over to Bree with a cup of water and asked her gently, "Hey, sweetheart, are you thirsty? Want some water?"Bree, who had been sitting there completely expressionless, looked at the cup. Her face then broke into an eerie grin.In her tiny, high-pitched voice, she said to the officer, "That water's yucky."You should drink Mommy's magic water instead. When you drink it, you can fly."She spread her arms wide like wings and started running

  • Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight   Chapter 8

    I remarked, "The bigger the stunt, the harder the fall. He thinks public opinion is his weapon, but he's forgotten that it cuts both ways."Derek's desperation went further than I ever expected.After unleashing the full force of his bot army to destroy my reputation online, he dressed himself and Bree in white and camped outside the front entrance of the city police headquarters. Bree still hadn't spoken a single word since the incident.He'd brought an army of reporters and social media influencers with him. He sobbed into every camera that would point his way, wailing that his wife had been framed by a con artist and that his family had been torn apart by a vindictive stranger.He railed against the justice system, accused the police of being on my payroll, and called the entire case a fabrication from start to finish.Bree sat in his arms through it all, her face blank, her eyes hollow, like a rag doll.The footage went viral instantly.Public opinion began to shift. More an

  • Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight   Chapter 7

    The first thing Derek did after getting out was track down my hotel."You put my wife behind bars for life. You traumatized my daughter so badly that she can barely speak anymore. Are you happy now?"Looking at him standing there, twisting reality without a shred of shame, I almost laughed."Derek, did you forget that you brought all of this on yourselves? Your daughter is the one who sprayed me with that stuff. If you and your wife hadn't acted like the world owed you something, do you really think any of this would've happened?""That was an accident!"Bree is just a kid. She didn't know what she was doing. You're the one who blew it out of proportion. "You're the one who insisted on calling the cops and turning it into a circus. You're a walking disaster."People were starting to stare, and the hotel security guards edged closer. I wasn't about to make a scene with him in a place like this."Get out of my way." My voice dropped low."I'm not going anywhere!"Fred Blake, y

  • Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight   Chapter 6

    The young man asked, "Hey, is your eye okay? You sure you don't need to get it checked at the hospital?"I shook my head. "The cops said the solution was diluted enough that it shouldn't be serious, just enough to cause an allergic reaction. It should clear up in a couple of days."While we were talking, a black Mercedes van soundlessly glided to a stop in front of us. The window rolled down, and a middle-aged man in gold-rimmed glasses leaned out."Excuse me, are you Mr. Blake? The gentleman who filed the report?"I eyed him warily. "Who's asking?""My name is Gerald Crawford. I'm Ms. Kessler's legal counsel. Ms. Kessler and her husband are currently unable to speak with you in person, so she's asked me to handle a few matters on their behalf."I didn't take his business card.The guy beside me got heated first. "Handle what? She's already been hauled in. What else is there to handle?"Gerald seemed to have expected this reaction. His expression didn't change, the professional

  • Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight   Chapter 5

    The young girl said, "I got it from the safe in Mommy's office. Mommy said it's magic water that makes people really happy."Every trace of color drained from Sandra's face, replaced by something between despair and disbelief. "What... What are you saying?"Derek wrenched free of the officers and rushed over, clamping a hand over his daughter's mouth."You little brat! What lies are you making up? What magic water? That was Mommy's eye drops!"He turned back to the officers, forcing a smile so strained that it looked more like a grimace. "Officer, come on, she's a kid. She doesn't know what she's saying. She's just watched too many cartoons, that's all."But it was too late. All of it was too late.The lead officer caught his colleague's eye behind him and spoke without a shred of emotion."Get me a search warrant. The first team goes to Ms. Kessler's home; the second team goes to her company. Every property and vehicle registered under her name gets turned inside out."And not

  • Bringing Sulfuric Acid to a Water Fight   Chapter 4

    The technician's voice was quiet, but it reverberated in the interrogation room like a thunderclap.Sandra's sneer hadn't even fully left her face before it froze in place."A special substance? What special substance? Quit trying to scare everyone! You just said it was tap water!" Derek's voice climbed higher.The technician ignored him entirely and handed the report to the lead officer. His gaze landed on Sandra's face with surgical precision."We detected a high concentration of a methamphetamine derivative in the water sample.""A what?"Derek stared blankly, completely lost. But Sandra, standing right beside him, went from arrogant to deathly pale in the span of a single breath.Something lurched in my chest. The chemical name sounded familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. One look at Sandra's reaction, though, told me everything I needed to know. Whatever this was, it was far worse than sulfuric acid."In layman's terms, it's a new form of liquid narcotic. The concentra

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