Chapter 43

When I was five years old, Mom bought some fish back home and kept a few lively ones in the tank. A scrawny young boy and I lay near the tank and happily watched the fish swim about. We wanted to raise them and then release them into the ocean.

When I was seven years old, I got really into movies depicting powerful skilled female warriors riding on horses, roaming the world, and exacting justice with a sword in hand. So, I started practicing martial arts, wanting to become a famous, righteous Robin Hood–like vigilante.

But I ended up falling from a fence and hurting my kneecap. I wailed painfully on the ground.

Felix’s brother, Colin, consoled me with a lollipop. He said, Warriors never cry.”

I looked up at him and asked, “Do warriors eat lollipops, then?”

Colin thought about it for a moment before nodding. “They do. Warriors love lollipops.”

When I was ten years old, I skipped a grade. All my classmates called me a freak, someone who was more capable than them, even though I was younger. They gossiped about me behind my back, yet no

one wanted to play with me.

I sat on the field with my bag on my shoulders, crying. A young teen I had never seen before came up by my side and handed me an exquisitely boxed cake. “You’ll only have more energy to cry once you finish

luck to

finished eating the cake but forgot to continue

blink of an eye. Three hooligans surrounded demanding I give

allowance.

knew to defend my wealth already. I shook my head, one hand clutching

give them my

punches at me, a teen appeared out of nowhere and came

standing in front of me. He said to hurry up

three hooligans ran off, the teen carried me home on his back. I

actually be a princess.

and brought all 999 paper stars I folded by hand to Aunt Mel’s house. It was Felix’s birthday, and I wanted to

able to catch up.

in dreams, Felix

wanted to cry.

It had been nearly two years since he had been home.

on with him. I didn’t know how much Colin had changed. Was he still the boy who would

another on holidays on these

the only source of

sudden cloud of mist appeared ahead. I soon got lost in it, unable to remember where I wanted

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