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On the day I left my father.
My mother was furious.
I looked at the wild strawberries in the corner.The strawberries hadn't grown yet,and the fragile little flowers swayed gently.
My mother took my hand and left this small city.
She didn't need a husband who was rarely at home for only a few days a month.
Since then,I almost forgot what my father looked like.
When he was young,he always looked tired.When he got home,he would fall asleep immediately.After waking up,he would disappear at the sound of a phone call.
After my mother died,my father hadn't called for half a year.
This was the first time I called my father,and it was also the first time he happened to answer my call.
I endured the tearing pain all over my body.
I asked him if I could go back.
I really missed him.
There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.
He agreed.
When I returned to this small town,everything was so unfamiliar.
Until the day I went to school to report,I didn't see him.
Even when we lived in the same house during the holidays,we rarely met.
My mobile phone was full of messages from my father.
Dad:Emily,there is food in the refrigerator,and there is money left on the table.Take care of yourself.
Dad:It's getting cold.Take some warm clothes to school.Take care of yourself.
Dad:I'm really too busy at the unit these days.You take good care of yourself.
Dad:The case my dad is working on has made some progress.Take care of yourself.
Dad:When you graduate,Dad will retire.Then Dad will stay with you.
"Dad,it hurts."
I had never provoked those people,but they grabbed my hair and banged my head against the cement floor.
They took off my clothes,took photos of me,poured red ink on my body,and burned cigarette butts on my arms.
Sophia grabbed my hair,kicked my calves,and slapped me hard a few times.
"Bitch,a slut who sleeps around!She's the one who bought this pregnancy test kit!"
The harsh laughter of the others made my dazed head buzz.
I loudly defended that it wasn't me,it wasn't me!
But no one cared.
No one cared about right or wrong.
"Aren't you going to go?You don't want your dad to know,do you?"
"Do you want your dad to see these photos,or do you admit that you stole the money?"
"I didn't steal the money!"
Jason was like a devil,torturing me all the time.
He acquiesced in those people bullying me,but he also pretended to be a good person and saved me.
Because of his deep-seated inferiority complex,he needed me to set off his sense of superiority.
He liked it when Lily got angry and tortured me because she didn't like my existence.
When I was pushed off the cliff by Lily,I clung tightly to the rock wall and begged them for help.The protruding stones rubbed against my wrists.I cried and begged them for help.
Mike squatted down with a sneer:"Call me dad,and I'll pull you up."
I bit my lip and didn't say a word,but tears couldn't stop flowing.
The powder that flew out from beside Mike's feet got into my eyes,and I heard their laughing voices.
Seeing that my arm was bleeding continuously.
Lily was a bit flustered and asked Mike to pull me up.
By the time they decided to do that,it was already too late.
My bones shattered,as if they had turned into powder at that moment.I couldn't make any sound from my throat.
But I could still hear.
I heard a familiar voice.
"It's already like this.We can only kill her."
It was Vivian.It was Vivian's voice.
This was her proposal.When she put it forward,the air was instantly silent for three seconds.
Jason immediately agreed.
They forced Lily to stab the knife into my abdomen first.
That was probably the thing I regretted the most in my life,which was reaching out my hand to Vivian.
I replaced her and became the devil's new source of amusement.
Then,I died,in the summer of my father's promise.
There were clusters of wild strawberries growing by the riverbank,as if they had sprouted from my shattered bones.
I would never see my dad again...
