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Chapter 11

Author: Pumpkin Scoop
The robot was something I'd bought for my tenth birthday for myself. I'd saved up for three months just to buy it. But the moment I brought it home, Matt snatched it from me and played with it instead.

He played with it for two weeks before getting bored with it and throwing it into the trash. I picked it up, cleaned it, and hid it under my pillow, playing with it for the next six years.

Now, Carrie held the robot in her arms wherever she went. Sometimes, she would crouch before my old room an
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    Mom also cried. She kept slapping herself until her lips split and she began bleeding from the corners of her mouth."I was a monster, Archie! I was out of my mind! I never should have taken it out on you. I never should have hit you. I never should have tied you up…"If you hate me now, won't you just come and haunt me in my dreams? You can punish me however you like… Please don't just ignore me like this… I can't take it…"Mom and Dad continued talking to themselves in their cell, slapping and hitting themselves until their faces were swollen and bloody. The prison guard saw their pitiful state and sighed before telling them to pull themselves together.I floated outside the glass window, staring at their sorry sight. Suddenly, the resentment I'd held toward them for more than a decade just dissipated like that.I suddenly stopped hating them now that I saw them living in perpetual remorse and burdened for life with the guilt of killing their own son.They'd already received th

  • Locked In While My Siblings Chase Freedom   Chapter 12

    Matt had to wake up every morning at 6:00 am and work until 8:00 pm, but he only earned about 100 dollars a day. The sun was scorchingly hot during the summer, and it made Matt so sunburned that his skin peeled off in large chunks. His back was also covered in welts. It hurt so badly that he could barely go to sleep at night.His hands were covered in blisters, and they would burst inside his gloves, making his skin stick painfully to the fabric. When he took off his gloves at the end of the day, his skin and flesh would be peeled off as well, causing him excruciating pain.And yet, the foremen yelled at him and scolded him almost every day, accusing him of being slow and lazy and even deducting his daily wages regularly.In the past, Matt never needed to even lift a finger at home. He could just come home after school and lie in bed as he gamed on his phone. Mom would be the one bringing meals to him on a tray at times.But now, he had to climb dozens of flights of stairs with d

  • Locked In While My Siblings Chase Freedom   Chapter 11

    The robot was something I'd bought for my tenth birthday for myself. I'd saved up for three months just to buy it. But the moment I brought it home, Matt snatched it from me and played with it instead.He played with it for two weeks before getting bored with it and throwing it into the trash. I picked it up, cleaned it, and hid it under my pillow, playing with it for the next six years.Now, Carrie held the robot in her arms wherever she went. Sometimes, she would crouch before my old room and speak to herself."Do you want some cantaloupe, Archie? I'll go and buy some for you, alright? "I was wrong, Archie. I'm sorry. I won't let you take my punishments anymore. Won't you please come back?"Sometimes, she would get up in the middle of the night, rush out to the 24-hour supermarket, and beg the staff to cut up a whole fresh cantaloupe for her. She'd then bring it home and pound heavily on my door, crying and yelling at me to come out and eat it.The neighbors eventually agreed

  • Locked In While My Siblings Chase Freedom   Chapter 10

    Matt lowered his head as his tears fell onto the police officer's notebook."Yes… Mom would always punish Archie every time I skipped school and went to the arcade or internet cafe…"The last time I secretly opened a bag of tortilla chips, Mom thought Archie stole it, and she beat him half to death. I didn't dare to say a word…"Carrie also nodded, crying hard with her hair in a mess and the pop star stickers on her face peeling off."The last time I skipped school, Dad sent Archie to the countryside and forced him to do hard labor for two months… I didn't dare to say anything…"They continued bringing up one incident after another, recounting all the punishments that I had taken for them over the years.Their statements took more than two hours, and by the time it was all done, it was almost time for the second half of the SAT to begin.The police officer looked at them and sighed."You can go to school and take the remainder of your test for now. We'll ask you to come in agai

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    I floated beside Dad and watched him make a spectacle of himself, feeling nothing in my chest.If he thought that he was being pitiful, then what about me? Who ever showed me any pity when I was tied to the bed and struggled to breathe as my life slowly slipped away?As the police car drove away, I pressed my face against the car window, watching my home of over a decade shrink smaller and smaller until it vanished out of sight.It suddenly occurred to me that I had never eaten a whole cantaloupe on my own.The wind blew into my eyes and stung them. I thought that I was going to cry again, but I had already run out of tears.I followed the police car to the police station and watched as Mom and Dad were locked up in the interrogation rooms, apologizing profusely over and over again.I stayed there for the whole night.The next morning, I heard two police officers talking to each other outside in the lounge."The victim's half-siblings are coming back today for the SAT, right?"

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    The moment the body bag was zipped up, Dad lunged at my body again, but two police officers stopped him."Sir, please calm down. We need to bring the victim back for an autopsy to determine the cause of death."Meanwhile, Mom sat on the couch, her head in her hands, tears streaming down her face in horror. When the police took statements from Mom and Dad, trying to get to the bottom of things, Mom still tried to hide the truth and lowered her head. "It's just… My son was behaving badly, so I tied him up to give him a fright…" she said. "But I never thought that he would struggle so much and end up tightening the rope on him like that… It was an accident, officer! We didn't mean to kill him…"The police officer sitting opposite her slammed his notebook onto the table with a dark expression on his face."An accident? We've checked the knots, and you used a sailor's knot on him! It's specifically designed to bind prisoners because the more they struggle, the tighter the knots will

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