Chapter 414

The family I had longed for never once longed for me.

June 21, 2007. Monday. Drizzling.

Today, I got punished again.

The injustice and helplessness weighed so heavily on me, I started to wonder if this house had ever truly been my home.

Before I left for school this morning, I scribbled a note and left it on the kitchen table: If you don't want me here, maybe I should just go back to the orphanage.

If there's no love left, there's no point in torturing each other like this.

After all, I've gotten used to being alone. Loneliness is a lot easier to bear than the feeling of being looked down on every day.

With these tangled thoughts, I trudged to school, dragging my feet. All day, I couldn't focus-memories of everything that had happened at home kept looping in my mind.

So, when classes ended that evening, I biked straight back to the orphanage.

rode. But when the familiar gates of the orphanage finally

chance to get off my bike, I saw

and shivering, and without a word

echoed through the drizzle,

We've been searching for you all these years. We finally bring you home, and the first thing you do is

were wild with anger, as if I'd committed

desperately to explain, “Dad, I'm not trying to

finish, my

come back this late-where have you been? Are you running around with the wrong crowd? Girls your age are so

and anger, her tears a silent

embarrass the Linwood family, I'll break your legs myself. I'd rather

but a criminal. Any explanation I gave sounded

to the

inside, my brother turned to

bother going to school

change my

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