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Chapter 8

作者: Blue Lemon
Our neighbor Zara immediately snapped, "Those burns on her hands came from when you threw hot coffee at her. The hallway security footage is still there."

Dad suddenly whirled on Mom.

"Why didn’t you take her to the hospital?"

Mom shot back, "Didn't you say she was faking it, too?"

"I told you to take her to the hospital!"

"And last night, you told her to go die somewhere else!"

Dad raised his hand as if to hit her, but an officer stepped in and stopped him.

Grandma Sheila hurried forward
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    I looked at them."I'm giving back the ten years of marriage you forced me to carry on my shoulders."Mom shook her head. "No. That's not how it is.""I will never forgive you."The white light spread from behind me. My voice drifted down over their heads."Your marriage is yours to deal with. End it yourselves."My figure slowly faded before their eyes.Mom lunged forward, but her hands met only air. She wrapped her arms around herself and sank to the ground, screaming my name.…A year passed.Dad lost his job.The disciplinary notice was posted on his front door. Someone eventually tore it down, crumpled it into a ball, and shoved it into his hands. With no other way to make a living, he survived by collecting scrap and recyclables.One night, while drunk, he got into a fight with someone over a pile of cardboard boxes. The other person beat him until both his legs were broken.On the day he was discharged from the hospital, no family member came to take him home.Mom

  • Tha Last Apology   Chapter 9

    Grandma Kelly sat against the wall, covering her ears as she shouted, "Stop it! She's already dead!"Samuel took out his phone and pressed play.Mom's voice came through the speakers. "Of course she should give me the money she earns. I raised her, so she owes me for it."Another recording played immediately afterward.Dad's voice filled the hall. "If she really dares to kill herself, she can go die somewhere far away. I don't need her causing me more trouble."Mom reached for the phone, but Samuel stepped back.Whispers spread through the crowd. Someone pointed at Dad and demanded angrily, "How can someone like him be allowed to hold public office?"Another person pulled out a phone to record everything. "Post those recordings online. Let everyone hear what these people are really like!"Dad sat on the steps, clutching the university acceptance letter to his chest.Rotten vegetables and plastic water bottles landed near his feet, but he did not look up.Mom kept murmuring th

  • Tha Last Apology   Chapter 8

    Our neighbor Zara immediately snapped, "Those burns on her hands came from when you threw hot coffee at her. The hallway security footage is still there."Dad suddenly whirled on Mom."Why didn’t you take her to the hospital?"Mom shot back, "Didn't you say she was faking it, too?""I told you to take her to the hospital!""And last night, you told her to go die somewhere else!"Dad raised his hand as if to hit her, but an officer stepped in and stopped him.Grandma Sheila hurried forward to intervene."Raising a child costs money! She’s the one who failed to live up to expectations. You can’t blame us for everything!"Zara held up her phone and pulled up the financial assistance records."The application clearly states that Whitney was seriously ill and needed financial assistance, but the money ended up in your pockets."You used her assistance money to gamble and buy cigarettes, and now you still dare to claim you did nothing wrong?"Grandma Sheila opened her mouth, then

  • Tha Last Apology   Chapter 7

    My spirit stood beside them.For all those years, no one had ever seen the words written on those pages. Now that someone was finally reading them aloud, I was not as heartbroken as I had imagined I would be.The officer put the three diaries back into the metal box. Reaching all the way to the bottom, he pulled out a photocopied document."There’s also a bank card here." He placed it beside the diaries and turned to Mom. "The account is under Melanie Larson's name. Can you explain who deposited the $24,000 in this account?""$24,000?" Mom stared at the card, her fingers frozen in midair. "I don't know."The officer opened a notarized document."Although the account is in your name, the transaction records show that over the past three years, the only deposits came from Whitney's jobs at a fast-food restaurant and a logistics center."She was under eighteen and couldn't open a bank account of her own, so she used your name to open this one."Dad raised his head."Where did she

  • Tha Last Apology   Chapter 6

    Inside the metal box were three diaries. Each was wrapped in a plastic cover, and the corners were worn.The officer picked up the first diary and began to read."When I was eight, Dad failed to get promoted. He came home and smashed Mom's mirror."Mom slapped me three times and said I had ruined her life. She said she would never have lost her job if she hadn't given birth to me."Mom jerked her head up."How could she remember things like that?"The officer continued reading."I used the money meant for breakfast to buy bandages and stuck them over the broken mirror."Mom and Dad made up."They said they wouldn't get divorced today, for my sake."All I had to do was get hit, and they'd stay together."Dad's cigarette fell to the floor.Mom reached for the diary. "Stop reading that!"The officer took a step back."These are the deceased's personal belongings.""Everything she wrote is a lie." Mom clenched her fingers. "What does an eight-year-old know?"The officer tur

  • Tha Last Apology   Chapter 5

    Mom opened the door a crack and frowned."Who comes looking for someone this early?""Are Whitney's parents home?"She pulled the door wider. "She isn't here. Go look for her at school. Don't come here first thing in the morning and disturb the neighbors."Dad walked out of the living room, a cigarette still between his fingers."What is this about?"The officer showed them his badge."A young woman was found dead near the abandoned water tower in Zephyr City. Based on her student ID and phone information, we believe she may be Whitney. We need the family to come down to the hospital for formal identification."Mom tightened her grip on the doorframe. A few seconds later, she suddenly laughed."Is she putting on another act?"The officer looked up. "What do you mean?""She threw a tantrum last night. She said she wanted to die and go to the hospital."Mom waved a hand dismissively."She’s been saying things like that since she was little. She just wants to force us to give

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