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, "Don't encourage Rosie

was already riled up, her small fists clenched as she declared, "Fighting is

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

did you get

got some tools, textbooks, a dress, and

currently wearing

lose out on brother's fish? Cody and Lukas said we only

you think it's

and anyway, Jasper

lighter. Angela passed her a pack of sanitary pads, "Even in the apocalypse, we still have

have

didn't insist, "Lukas and Cody are hooked. They want

thanks, I'm staying home for a few days. You go have

at the idea of a

When Rosie finished her homework, Stella sat on the couch to continue her project. Finally, she had finished her first thermal suit for Cooper. She called him over, "Cooper,

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,

be another hole. Not wanting to

just come out of a coal mine with this black

blunt,

her mistake and immediately covered her mouth, looking at Stella with innocent

insulted Cooper bit at the suit: 'Get this ugly

him, "No way, Cooper is the

even more handsome than

at Stella,

my

and nuzzled into her arms: 'If

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 about looking good. As long as it kept

to pick up Rosie. Stella stopped him and handed him a nail gun, "I

"Keep it."

a life-saving tool, and he