18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 65

The first time Rosie got into a fight, it left a deep impression on her young mind. She clung to Jasper's neck, "When I grow up, I'll protect you too." "Alright."

"I'll protect Stella too, and Cooper."

"Alright."

Next, they sold fish, with Jasper showing her the ropes.

Stella listened silently. Jasper's teaching methods were rough, but in a world where order had collapsed, maybe Rosie would have been worse off if they'd stuck to the old ways of kindness and gentleness. "Yes, what your brother taught you isn't wrong."

Curious, Stella asked Rosie, "Have you ever been hungry or been beaten up?"

Rosie lowered her head, nervously fiddling with her clothes.

"That's okay. You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

"When Jasper didn't come home, I was so hungry. My cousin bullied me, and my aunt scolded me."

"Do you want to go through that again?"

"No!" Rosie shook her head vehemently, her voice tinged with a sob. "I don't want to."

"Well, remember that feeling. If anyone ever treats you like that again, you fight back. Don't be afraid. They can't beat you."

"But my aunt said the police would take me away."

"As long as you're not the one starting trouble, the police won't take you away." Stella comforted the little girl, "Today, when you fought, the police didn't come to get you, did they?"

Relieved, Rosie said, "I'll listen to Stella and Jasper. No one will bully me anymore."

Cooper growled his agreement from the side.

ear, "Don't encourage Rosie to

fists clenched as she declared, "Fighting is easy.

felt inadequate. She trained hard every day, but was no match for her brother. But after getting into a fight with someone else today, she realized that she wasn't weak. Jasper

asked, "Rosie, what did you get for the fish you sold

"We got some tools, textbooks, a dress, and

hairband, which she was currently wearing on her head, made her look even

out on brother's fish? Cody and Lukas said

as you think it's worth it,

needs, and anyway, Jasper wasn't short

pads, and a lighter. Angela passed her a pack of sanitary pads, "Even in the

refused, "I have plenty.

hooked. They want to go again tomorrow. Do you want

home for a few days. You go have fun."

laughed gleefully at the idea of

couch to continue her project. Finally, she had finished her first thermal suit for Cooper. She called him over, "Cooper, come here." The suit

was brutal, so Stella had made a onesie thermal suit, with a hole for Cooper's tail. There was another hole at the rear end,

another hole. Not wanting to put diapers on Cooper, she cut

had just come out of

blunt, "It

her mouth, looking at Stella with innocent eye. 'I didn't mean

'Get this ugly

Cooper is the

ugly. He's even more handsome than my brother, and the suit Stella

at Stella,

my dog is the

into her arms: 'If I'm so handsome, make me another

meant he didn't feel the change in temperature now, so he didn't react to the suit. When she finished the second suit, she used the leftover fabric to make a suit for Smoky and Snowy. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't

up Rosie. Stella stopped him and handed him a nail gun, "I almost forgot to return

"Keep it."

was a life-saving tool,