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Chapter 9

作者: Amber Fleck
Neither Mom nor Dad attended my funeral.

After fainting at the police station that day, Mom's mental state completely deteriorated, so Dad sent her to a rehabilitation facility.

Mom, dressed in a hospital gown, lay on the bed. She was so thin that she looked almost like a sheet of paper, and her hair had gone entirely gray too.

She looked as frail and haggard as an 80-year-old woman.

When Jenna passed, Mom and Dad were just in their early 40s. Now, they were already well into their 60s.

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    The air in the room seemed to freeze in an instant. Mom and Dad stood there, motionless, like statues.With red-rimmed eyes, Zachary shouted in a hoarse voice, "JJ jumped from a building! She was still with us in the daytime. Why would she jump?"Mom and Dad still didn't react.Unable to hold himself back any longer, Zachary ran straight out the door.After some time, Mom slowly came back to her senses."Jennifer actually dared to jump?" She slowly sank onto the floor. "She's still trying to compete with Jenna for attention! She stole Jenna's life, and she still had the nerve to jump?"Dad opened his mouth, but not a single sound came out. All he did was slowly lean back against the wall.After another long while, Mom turned to look at Dad. "Did Bella team up with her to lie to me? Is this their way of threatening me, trying to make sure I never mention Jenna again?"That has to be the case! It has to be! That ungrateful, insatiable wretch! Why didn't I strangle her back then?"

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    When I regained consciousness, I saw a young woman lying on the concrete ground. It took me a long while to realize that the body was mine.I was already dead.The next second, I felt my soul being violently pulled away. I was instantly transported to my parents' side.Mom was collapsed in front of a gravestone, sobbing uncontrollably. "Jenna, it's been 20 years, and I still can't move on. What do I do?"It turned out they had gone to visit Jenna again.Ever since I was born, my parents had visited Jenna's grave once a week without fail. But they never once brought me along.At first, I thought they were secretly going somewhere fun. So, one time, I acted playful and begged to go along too.But Mom turned right around and slapped me across the face.Back then, her eyes were bloodshot as she berated me. "You've been taking up all of our time every single day. Jenna only gets to see us once a week! It's only one day, yet you still want to ruin it? How could there be a child as se

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