FAZER LOGINMom was a top student at a prestigious school and had always been determined to be the best at everything. She demanded that I learn to walk by seven months, speak fluently by eighteen months, and master all addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division by the age of three. I did all of it. Yet Mom still felt it wasn’t enough. However, when my younger brother, Liam, didn’t speak until he was five, Mom clapped and cheered when he finally did, celebrating his “late-blooming brilliance”. I didn’t think anything of it. Until one day, I was wearing headphones, memorizing Spanish words, and accidentally let the sound leak out, scaring Liam. He clutched his chest and cried, saying his heart hurt. Mom’s eyes turned red as she stormed over and slapped me. Then she grabbed my ear, twisting it a full 360 degrees with all her strength. The pain in my ear was so intense that I lost all feeling, and the fear made me nauseous to the point of vomiting. Still, Mom forced the headphones back on, cranked the volume to the maximum, and locked me in the storage room to reflect. “How could I give birth to such a terrible child? You’re just jealous of Liam. No matter how much I do for you, you’ll never appreciate it! “Love listening to words, huh? Then listen all you want.” But seven days later, when she opened the door, she completely lost it.
Ver maisSoon, Dad took Liam to another city and sent Mom divorce papers.Mom, however, ignored it. Day and night, she stared at my writing, “My Mom”.In it, I had written about my endless love for her—about her care for me and her patient guidance.As a top student, she revised the writing over and over again, even down to every punctuation mark.Then she kneeled day after day outside Ms. Fuller’s house, begging her to select the writing again for the state competition.Ms. Fuller, helpless in the face of Mom’s mental breakdown, could only brush her off vaguely.After that, Mom shut herself inside the house. She couldn’t eat or sleep through the night, and her hair fell out in clumps.Grandpa and Grandma grew anxious. They used their connections to obtain psychiatric medication from a doctor and coaxed Mom into taking it.After a period of treatment, Mom seemed a little better. She looked radiant again.I felt relieved watching her.As for that storage room, Mom never set foot in it
“That’s my daughter. Don’t clean her away. Otherwise, she won’t be able to find her way back!”Even though the room reeked horribly, Mom breathed it in as if it were a fragrance.“This is my daughter’s scent. Don’t you dare erase it!“And as for you filthy rats, I’m going to settle this with you. How dare you bully my daughter!”With a vicious look, Mom began grabbing the rats with her bare hands. She lunged at them like a starving wolf, as if facing a mortal enemy. Soon, the rats were all gone.My heart ached as I tried to touch the wounds on her hands where chunks of flesh had been bitten off.I screamed, “Mom, please stop hurting yourself. I’m begging you.”However, it was useless.Then the police came again.“The investigation results are out, ma’am. After DNA comparison, this body is indeed your daughter, Ellie.”The officer stated the fact in an almost emotionless tone.Even though Mom had already prepared herself mentally, when faced with the final confirmation, she s
I looked at Mom, who seemed to be losing her mind, and felt so sad. So I reached out, wanting to hug her, but all I touched was air. As if Mom sensed my embrace, she suddenly looked up into the empty space where I was.“Ellie? Is that you? Ellie, I was wrong. Come back. Stop hiding. I’ll take you to buy Barbie dolls!”Dad finally couldn’t hold back anymore. He slapped Mom hard across the face and roared, “Look carefully! Ellie is gone! Face reality!”Then he collapsed onto the floor and burst into tears.“If only I had insisted on checking on our daughter… How could I be so weak?!”My body was carried away by the coroner for examination.Mom sat on the floor for a long time. Suddenly, as if she snapped back to her senses, she viciously slapped Liam.“If you hadn’t suddenly said your heart hurt, your sister wouldn’t have died!”Dad quickly shielded Liam, who was crying loudly. For the first time, he looked at Mom with a firm expression.“Let’s get a divorce. I’m not staying w
The rats in the storage room were startled by the sudden sound of the door opening and scattered.When Mom saw the rats run out, she jumped. Then a relieved smile slowly appeared on her face.“I told you, Ellie must be fine. She has hands and feet. Maybe she went to the bookstore today.“She’s terrified of rats. There’s no way she would still be in the storage room.“She must have run off already. Hahaha…”She let out a long breath and patted her chest.“Thank God… thank God…”Dad seemed to be pulled back to reality by her words. He had always obeyed Mom without question, but at that moment, it was as if he had become a different person.He grabbed Mom by the collar, dragged her up from the floor, and shoved her straight into the storage room.“Look! Look at what you’ve done!”Dad lost all his strength and collapsed onto the ground. He pounded his chest, tugged at his hair, and muttered with his head lowered.“Our child… Ellie… such a lovely child…”After a brief moment o


















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