Library
Search
Short
Guardians From Above

Guardians From Above

Short Story · Emotional Realism
By:  BucketCompleted
Language: English
goodnovel4goodnovel
12Chapters
1views
Read
Add to library

Share:  

Report
Overview
Catalog
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP

Synopsis

Familial Bond

Plot Twists

Feel-Good Story

Bias

Family Emotions

As the dean of educational and student affairs, my mom had always been strict about me and my brother’s conduct since we were young, keeping records of our every move. Want to eat? Memorize your textbook first. Want to buy stationary? Score full marks at your next test. My brother could never achieve anything, and I was always the one receiving all the rewards. I always thought that my mom treated us fairly. Until the day I was supposed to submit my college application, when my mom said I had to apply for a college of education to get a new phone. When I submitted my application, I saw a bunch of comments flash past my eyes. [This girl is so stupid, thinking that her mom is fair. Her brother didn’t fulfill the requirements, but her mom rewarded him anyway.] [She’s a top scorer in her state, yet she still has to apply for a teacher’s college before she can get a new phone. Her brother got into a community college and he got a branded phone that's the latest in the market.] [What’s more, her mom made her apply for an education major because she thinks a teacher is more valuable in the dating market. She can also save money to help pay the deposit for a house for her brother.]

View More

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, and I quietly walked to my brother’s room.

Through the door left ajar, I saw him having the time of his life playing with the latest phone on the market.

I clenched my fists and immediately called my homeroom teacher.

“Ma’am, I need to change my application to the college!”

-

I hung up, my fingers still trembling.

When I saw that my application for Northland School of Aerospace Engineering was successfully submitted, I took a deep breath.

I swiftly cleared my browser history and pretended that I had submitted an application for a teacher’s college before leaving my room.

A bunch of comments flashed past.

[Damn, did that rule‑abiding girl really dare to go against her mother’s wishes and change her application?]

[What’s the point of that anyway?]

[Exactly. Her mom has her identification document. She wouldn’t be able to leave the house without them!]

My heart sank.

Indeed.

The day my college entrance exams ended, my mom forcefully took my identification document away on the pretext of “keeping it for me.”

I walked to the living room.

My mom was seated on the couch with a calculator in hand. The ever-so-familiar conduct record book was open before her.

“There you are, dilly-dallying away. It took you half an hour to come down for dinner!”

My mom frowned as she scratched her pencil tip on the record book.

“Tardiness. Minus ten points. The 1,000 dollars I promised to give you to buy a phone has been deducted to 900 dollars.”

I clenched my fists. “Mom, I had problems accessing the college application system. That’s why I came out late. Can you please not deduct my score?”

Mom sneered and smacked the calculator on the table.

“Rules are rules. I have always been this strict with you and your brother since you two were young. How could you have emerged the top scorer in our province without my rules?”

Just then, my brother Hugh Chester sauntered from his room.

His head was bowed as he stared at his brand-new phone, playing his game with the volume cranked up to the max.

I looked at his new phone and couldn’t help but speak.

"Since rules are rules, why must I listen to you and apply for an education college just to get a phone worth 900 dollars when I’m the top scorer of the state? Hugh only managed to get into a community college, but he got the latest phone in the market?”

The look on my mom’s face froze.

Comments started flashing past once more.

[What a joke! Of course it’s because he’s a mommy’s boy!]

[Why does she even bother pretending to be impartial? It’s so tough putting on a facade like that.]

[Her mom was boasting to other teachers in the staff room, praising herself for her great parenting and being impartial to both her children. Someone even asked her for tips on raising children. Ugh!]

My words struck a raw nerve with my mom, and she flew off the handle. Standing up, she smacked the table hard.

Expand
Next Chapter
Download

Latest chapter

More Chapters

You may also like

Related Novels

New Release Novels

To Readers

Welcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what's more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.

No Comments
12 Chapters
Chapter 1
I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, and I quietly walked to my brother’s room.Through the door left ajar, I saw him having the time of his life playing with the latest phone on the market. I clenched my fists and immediately called my homeroom teacher.“Ma’am, I need to change my application to the college!”-I hung up, my fingers still trembling. When I saw that my application for Northland School of Aerospace Engineering was successfully submitted, I took a deep breath.I swiftly cleared my browser history and pretended that I had submitted an application for a teacher’s college before leaving my room.A bunch of comments flashed past.[Damn, did that rule‑abiding girl really dare to go against her mother’s wishes and change her application?][What’s the point of that anyway?][Exactly. Her mom has her identification document. She wouldn’t be able to leave the house without them!]My heart sank.Indeed.The day my college entrance exams ended, my mom forcefully took my i
Read more
Chapter 2
“What do you know?! Your brother’s behavior in high school wasn’t enough to get him into a community college at all!“The fact that he managed to do it during the actual entrance examination shows his remarkable improvement!“That phone is my reward for his amazing improvement!”She pointed at my nose and scolded me.“How could you be so selfish? He’s your brother! Must you be so calculative with him over something so trivial?”I looked at her quietly. Her face was all flushed from a guilty conscience.I was suddenly at a loss for words.Hugh was born a mere five minutes after me. Yet in this house, he was the king while I was a slave.I pulled out a chair and quietly sat down to have my meal.At my refusal to respond, my mom gritted her teeth in anger.“How dare you give me that attitude and talk back to your elders! I’ll deduct another 50 marks from you! That leaves only 500 dollars for your phone. Take it or leave it!”She pulled out five notes from her wallet and flung t
Read more
Chapter 3
I grabbed a stool and climbed up on it to pull open a drawer right at the top of the wardrobe. That black down jacket was indeed inside.I reached into the inner pocket and found a plastic bag wrapped around something firm. Opening it, I saw that it really was my identification document.I jumped down the stool and rushed to the dressing table.Pushing away the expensive skincare box, I dug out my bank card from the depths of the gap behind the box.I had just gotten my hands on the card. Before I even had the time to catch my breath, I heard the sound of a key being inserted into the keyhole at the entryway.Creak…The door was open.My body stiffened as the blood froze in my veins.[It’s your brother! He came back early!][Don’t make a sound. Don’t move!][He’s grabbing a drink from the fridge in the living room. He’ll head back to his room immediately to play games!]Comments came in like a flood; some of them in red and bolded font, obscuring my vision.I held my two ca
Read more
Chapter 4
The comments went wild before my eyes.[Alarm! Alarm!][Your mom is going to the ministry of education tomorrow afternoon and making use of her contacts to check on your college application records!][Run, quick! Leave tonight!][Any later, and you’ll be out of time! You’ll be doomed if she catches you!]I sat up on the bed.Without any hesitation, I packed two sets of clothes in the bag with my identification document, bank card and letter of acceptance.I tiptoed across the living room to the door and opened it, sneaking out into the night without looking back.Gritting my teeth, I raced to the train station.I bought a ticket for the earliest train to Northland.As I sat on the hard plastic chair, listening to the wheels running along the track, I watched the night sky zoom past me outside the window. The burden on my shoulders finally lifted.Over the entire 12-hour journey, I didn’t dare shut my eyes for even a minute.When I arrived at Northland, the sun was high up i
Read more
Chapter 5
I didn’t panic at all despite the alarming bolded red comments on the screen.Instead, I calmly pulled out my new phone card and switched to a backup phone.I then locked my bag containing my letter of admission, identification document, and bank card in a locker exclusively for the use of employees of the coffee shop.After all that, I switched on the recorder in my phone and stuffed it in the pocket of my apron.I was ready for whatever would come.Five in the evening. The shop was filled with university students and office workers from surrounding schools and office buildings. I was busy preparing a takeout order when someone pushed the door open.“Sandra Chester! Come out here right now!”A shriek of fury pierced the air, momentarily overpowering the music in the shop.I looked up, only to see my mom rushing in, her hair all disheveled.She didn’t even bother packing her luggage. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she looked like a man-eating ghost.When her gaze met mine, sh
Read more
Chapter 6
Mom glared viciously at me.“Sandra Chester, just you wait! This isn’t over yet!”With that, she walked out of the tea shop, grumbling under her breath.I rubbed Ms. Walsh’s back and was about to heave a sigh of relief when a wave of comments flooded my vision once more.[Sandra, watch out!][When your mom left the tea shop, she sneakily snapped a photo of the shop’s business license!][She was telling your brother that she would lodge a complaint with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau against the shop manager for illegally taking in a missing person!]I sneered at the warning and turned to look at my manager.“Ms. Walsh, I’m so sorry for dragging you into this. My mom is a vengeful woman. She just snapped a photo of our business license and is probably going to lodge a complaint against you.”Ms. Walsh rubbed her back and said with a wave of her hands, “There’s nothing to fear. My license to operate is legitimate, and I legally employ university students at or over the age
Read more
Chapter 7
I sneered.Pulling out my apron, I emptied my bag on the countertop. All the clothes and toiletries came spilling out.“Ms. Walsh, I didn’t take the money.”I looked coldly at Hugh. “Since my brother claimed to see me take the money with his own eyes, I’ll empty my bag to prove my innocence.”The look on Hugh’s face changed when he saw that there was no money in my bag.I quickly added, “Since the money isn’t with me, shouldn’t we search my brother instead?”I pointed at the surveillance camera above our heads.“We should also retrieve the footage and see who’s the thief.”Hugh’s voice turned pale the moment he heard the words “surveillance camera.” He turned around and fled.“Stop him!” Ms. Walsh reacted quickly and yelled out loud.The security guard in the shop rushed over and seized Hugh, effectively subduing him and pressing him against the door frame.“Let me go! What are you doing?!” Hugh struggled with all his might, making a last-ditch effort to break free.My mo
Read more
Chapter 8
I opened the door and sat before my computer without even switching the lights on.Over the years, I’ve learned how to keep something back in reserve. I accessed my encrypted cloud storage. It contained all the evidence I had gathered over three years.That included scanned copies of my mom’s conduct record book, filled with her scribbles, the 80,000 dollars I earned from teaching tuition which I was eventually forced to transfer to her account, and a recording of her forcing me to give up my direct admission to a competition and transfer it to Hugh instead.I organized all the files and put them in a folder.Finally, I looked at the comments box.“Thank you, all of you. Tomorrow, she’ll get the evidence she asked for.”The next morning, I woke up with the sunlight in my eyes.I walked to the school gate at Northland with my bag and immediately spotted my mom, sitting on the floor and throwing a tantrum.There was a glaring red banner right behind her that read: [Northland
Read more
Chapter 9
“She did not contribute a single cent to my university tuition fees.“This is a screenshot of her chat with my homeroom teacher that shows how she tried to bribe her and force me to apply for an education college, which offers free tuition fees.”I put all of my evidence on display, my tone filled with confidence.“She came causing trouble today not because I stole money, but because I finally left her clutches and she is no longer able to suck me dry of my money while giving it all to my brother!”Dead silence ensued.Moments later, there was a huge shift in opinion. All the reporters suddenly aimed their cameras and microphones at my mom.“Madam, why did you take your daughter’s hard-earned money and give it to your son to buy a house for him?”“Don’t you think it’s almost illegal to force your daughter in such an extreme way?”“Is what you’re doing today considered malicious slander?”My mom stood rooted to the ground, her face flushed with embarrassment. She opened her mou
Read more
Chapter 10
“I don’t recognize you. All I see are two people trying to break into my apartment.”I had both witnesses and material evidence complete.My mom, Hugh, and that unlucky locksmith were all brought to the police station.As they were suspected of illegally trespassing private property, they were detained for eight whole hours at the station. They were eventually released after receiving a reprimand and a fine, as their attempt did not result in severe consequences.I thought they would finally stop after this.However, I had underestimated their bottom line.Two days later, Ms. Lewis, my high school homeroom teacher, texted me out of the blue. She had sent me a video clip.In it, my mom was seated at the Student Affairs Office in my high school, throwing yet another fit.“She’s the one! Ms. Lewis accepted my daughter’s bribe and helped her change her college application! If it weren’t for her, my daughter would have returned home with me long ago!“If she doesn’t go to Northland
Read more
View More
Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status