Monster in the Attic

utside and

from behind, as if tryin

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frightening in the shadows, as he

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my back, and one thought

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many times have I told you? Rocky has severe violent

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ed out

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pleasant expression. His face twitche

, but now that you're an adult, yo

aid next left me

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lankly at

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murd

your brother's classmate, but he is a sociopathic maniac. When he enrolled, his

di

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s when he was seven, your brother wouldn't have died. If

y-fiv

ptured him and

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ldn't convict him, so we took it upon ourselves to judge him. If this

face was pal

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locked up for more than ten years, he's already bee

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r said,

y, but I knew deep down

vier would become a pitiful victim,

y father said

a person who has no blood relati

at me with a hear

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n my mother's insistence on seeing me f

d was true, then I was in

out to pat my head

or you to accept right now, but Zavier really can

bro

I saw my mother

looking up at me with

eir eyes touch

u, but this is just too har

to guilty people, and the person in the attic, who was sup

worry about this anymore. We've already lost your bro

er said

me with a plea

cated inside, knowing that what my parents did

atter what. My mind was full of my brother's

ally belong to a s

, deciding to fin

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the wardrobe

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incidence that my parents had plastic su

y need cosm

in my mind, unless they n

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s, my parents stood behind me, look

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on records, mentioning seve

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by 7 am, so she would get up at 6 am

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lip, and

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worn shorts. It was all

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rove me to school as usua

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ooking at me with confusion, as i

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signaling for m

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wrote a few lin

how they

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t e

truggle, I accidentally pushed him into the river. I didn't realize

seven-year-old child ac

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they sneaked into our home, killed our parents, and locked me in the attic. To completely rep

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m your brot

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y different from what my parents had told me, I o

was

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spair and pleading, let

d writing agai

thing to kill you. Bailee, it's going to h

l y

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have a s

wat

ded me of something

r to play, but due to his carelessness, I struggled i

more I thought about it,

t my father did

r the past eighteen years, I avoided learning how to swim, just

flesh, and the potential t

f the story. He might be lying.

be part of his disguise. Although his education level was only that of

. When people hear their names,

r he

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est them by calli

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ather's car and noticed that

d smiles on

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ar and anxiety. "W

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th

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the river

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was my brother, my

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remember I'm te

id s

ourse I remember, but I also remember that you alwa

orry. W

sa

out me. My mother was even scrolling t

indow and then casually

, the car scree

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ent, I knew

ther, was tel

arents. They were

r, her eyes wide open,

hat did yo

s reading a novel and came across these two na

lo

again, and the car sta

in the car be

rly that I had

had already mad

k, there was

ular tourist spot, but recently t

dy 9 PM, and apart from the sanitati

heir lunch boxes and snacks and

here," my mother cal

ally thinking was that she could finally get rid o

own bes

cold, and my hear

thought I would be accompanied by the murderers of m

fe was hidden

pocket and grippe

from my hand, but it

remember when you were little, you were so afraid of wa

y y

hold your hand by the rive

r h

ached out hi

his hand, but my

I said, extending my

r a moment but t

ily of three, walke

ver, I couldn't honest

er as a child resurfaced, and the fee

survive overp

rvive and r

when the two monsters reached out t

out the knife and stabbed Van in th

tried to fight me, b

apsed on the ground,

ed at their faces, softl

essed smile. "So y

know a secret..." he

inish his sentenc

ady fainted in

dly, raising the knif

later, I re

ns on Rocky and he

and signaled that h

nding to be mute all these years to lower their gua

lled

ld back. I cried out in Rocky's arms

should call the police. You

-def

e to walk, Rocky limped as

nse. It's excessive defense.

own and sp

handed them over to the police, but i

s old, obviously didn't realize the gravity of t

. "I'll wait for you to come out. I'll tak

ft

d withdraw all the money using your

y told me many things I didn't know

ere both middle school teachers

and Rocky, and would tak

's arms, I felt an imm

You are very tired

see the cold, indifferent gaze

e bank and successfully withdrew t

to be five m

care for me for eighteen years. It w

ple never earned five milli

f the bank hol

ce station, Rocky," I

we walked towards

river, I stoppe

and smiled softly. "Rocky, do yo

wat

hand still raised, maintaining the ge

and shock i

were you just

as I step

face sho

his phone and dialed

s killing

ould finish, I

. Van and Avayah are not

th a beam

idened. "Did t

om the very beginning, I k

I never had

mil

creasingly grim, and f

ching. He slumped to the ground, help

know

discovered that I was dif

to talk, I was able to communicate flue

or, who marveled at my brain dev

father, he cared for me and left me a large

this inheritance would b

ference for sons over daughters, and they did not want a

an elder brother or

ly princess

o, an uninvited coupl

ecognized w

my early education class. My mother had bought break

ears older than me, who was dir

couldn't speak, my mother gave the couple a thou

envious and greedy

oney in a submissive manner with th

, I hid in t

my parents and threatened them to reveal th

bank card password, but they did not

eserve my life, my parents told the couple

rvived

o they lied that my parents were on a business trip, that they were

' identity, they chose to self-mutilate

eir child, the little boy, was st

e seven-year-old murderer back

g, but I knew from the beginning that th

every day, but she didn't know that I always kept i

ir imprisonment, they claim

discover the truth eventually, so he ad

vincing than adding a

to kill his enemies who had imprisoned him

is success because he

sider that I was s

and I used

s a simple, naive, and ignorant

ldn't help but act against me and

ay had

as I placed a bouquet of flowers, but te

I came to