My Life as Mom's Living Warning
Mom is always very strict with both my elder sisters, Esther and Emily Kingston.
She always wakes them up at 5:00 am to make them study. And if they refuse to wake up, Mom will grab an embroidery needle and stab it into my arm.
When fresh blood spills out, Esther and Emily will both get a fright and scramble to their desks at once to begin studying.
Sometime during the year-end exam, Esther gets one easy question wrong, and I receive ten lashes with Mom's belt. Emily gets only the second-highest score in class, and I am forced to kneel on glass until my knees turn bloodied and torn.
Esther and Emily feel sorry for me and fall to their knees, begging Mom to have mercy on me and promising that they will study hard and make her proud of them. Mom smiles happily and says that this teaching method works very well.
However, after the SATs, Esther applies for a college out of state, and Emily tells Mom that she is eloping with a young man whom she has fallen in love with.
Mom is so angry that she yanks me over and stuffs me into a huge fish tank before beginning to fill it up with water.
She then takes a video of me, threatening to drown me alive if they don't listen to her and do exactly as she says.
The water keeps rising in the tank. I feel scared, but I don't struggle because Mom always tells me that the only reason for my existence is to be made an example out of for Esther and Emily.
She often quotes Shakespeare's "Othello", telling me about how I am the "sacrificial" dog one beats to scare a lion and teach it obedience.
I think that I am considered quite a qualified dog after all, right?