- 9.
Faced with my dad’s redirecting, Ethan didn’t
fight back, instead, he apologized. “It’s my
fault.”
“See? He admits it, it’s his fault. If he didn’t
give her the opportunity, would Sarah have
harassed him so much? I am not the father…”
“Dad! Are you going to explain yourself to me.
now, or to Mom?”
I said to him.
Dad pulls me away, whispering, “Baby, give
Dad some credit.”
“She had to change into your mom’s face, I
just want to give her money and change
back.”
“She said she would give me money as long
as she has my membership card.”
“I didn’t know so many things would happen.
If I did, I wouldn’t have given it to her.”
Sarah’s parents are in prison.
They’re charged with human trafficking and
kidnapping, and it is a fifteen–year sentence.
Sarah was also facing jail time.
But Sarah’s mom took all the blame, which
made her not get punished.
She came out.
She was taken by Dad, he didn’t let her go to
the beauty salon and forced her face back to
the way it was before.
So, I didn’t recognize her when she came to
find me.
When I asked her, she said, “Why didn’t you
die in the ocean?”
“You should have died in the ocean, because
then my father would have come, and Ethan
should have been mine.”
“Not all of this is true, I don’t need the truth,
so I can be happy”
“Whether I’m the real daughter or the fake
daughter, I can be the real daughter, and
everyone should love me!”
“This is wrong, everything is wrong to my
mind! I shouldn’t have read all of those
novels!”
I send her video to Mom.
“See? This is what happens when you read
too many novels. It messed her head.”
Mom knows what to do. “I deleted all of them,
because I don’t watch them. What do I care
for now?”
“Since you are busy, I will leave here.”
Dad is very serious because he is going to let
her go.
く
I distinctly heard that Dad only cared so much
because my Mom told everyone that my Dad
was with someone.
As a sign that Dad has moved on.
I don’t say anything, and I gave Sarah to the
local psychiatric hospital.
Then, I made a summary document that
includes what happened at the hospital to
Mom’s reading, and I made her read the
story.
Sarah is always mad, so it is not stable.
She tells the patients that, “This is not the
true world. This is a book that I don’t want to
read.”
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“I want to be a good person, but I don’t want
to be the person to read the books.”
“Do you know why?”
“If I wasn’t being evil, the author would not
have anything to write about, and she would
not have enough.”
“That’s right, this person is reading trash.
books.”
The people tell me that she is always mad.
She has always been mad to the person who
is reading the books.
She let me do what I wanted to do.
“Hear me and I will let you be there.”
“If you help me, then we can be friends.”
Strange things, I don’t understand at all.
Nobody says the way they should be.
The doctors looked at her.
I can tell you how many people have the
disease.
“The person who is here should be able to
make the drugs work.”
(End)
