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.

tugged at his ear,

as she declared,

into a fight with someone else today, she realized that she wasn't weak. Jasper was just too strong. The boy who tried to steal her candy couldn't

subject, Stella asked, "Rosie, what did you

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

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

out on brother's fish? Cody

long as you think it's worth it,

had different needs, and anyway, Jasper wasn't

sanitary pads, and a lighter. Angela passed her a pack of sanitary pads, "Even in the apocalypse, we still have to bleed every month. It's

"I have

and Cody are hooked. They want to go again

staying home for a few days. You go have fun." No need

gleefully at the idea of a day

her project. Finally, she had finished her first thermal suit for Cooper. She called him

with a hole for Cooper's tail. There

to put diapers on Cooper,

he had just come out of a coal mine

was blunt, "It

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

this ugly thing off me. It's ruining my

is the most handsome dog in the

"Cooper isn't ugly. He's even more handsome than my brother, and the suit Stella made

at Stella, "Woof!"

his head, "I'm not lying, my dog is the

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

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

handed him a nail gun, "I almost forgot

"Keep it."

was a life-saving tool, and he