âItâs not our fault that somebody wants your life.â
The leader brandished his knife. He intended to kill me.
Stevie mustered all its strength and lunged forward.
What evil thoughts could a dog have? It only knew that it had to protect me.
I let out a shout as my head throbbed. It felt as if it were about to explode.
Suddenly, a scene flashed through my mind.
A barely alive puppy had just been born, and its stray mother had been killed by some children throwing.
stones at it.
The mother dog had just been scavenging for scraps to feed its puppies, despite its weary body.
Yet, those children seemed to find pleasure in cruelty, relentlessly pelting the dog with stones.
From birth, humans were predisposed to good and evil. Some could control their evil desires and become. good, while others abandoned their good side and became slaves to their evil side.
Those children didnât think they were wrong. It was the primitive cruelty of humans that spurred their actions. They enjoyed tormenting those weaker than themselves because they found pleasure in it.
âGet lost!â I was still a child in the memories. I was holding a brick that was larger than my hand, which i then expressionlessly smashed onto the head of the boy who had led the other children to throw stones.
at the dog.
Instantly, the boyâs forehead bled, and he cried out in pain.
I grabbed his hair and asked him coldly, âDoes it hurt? Does being hit by a stone hurt?â
The other children ran away in fright. The boy continued to cry in pain as I said, âLook pain is too.â
Soon, the boyâs parents arrived, and they began to scold my parents relentlessly.
know what In the end, my parents compensated them with money and took the injured dog to the hospital.
However, the dog didnât survive.
My parents adopted the puppies the dog had given birth to, but only one survived. It was a wolfhound, and I named it Georgie.
From then on, I had a wicked dog by my side.
âItâs her! Run!â
Those children seemed afraid when they saw me. They would run as soon as they saw me.
âStephie canât go on like this. Sheâs too indifferent. What should we do?â
âWhat sins have we committed?â
âIs It our fault? Starting tomorrow, Iâll do charity work. Iâll pray to God for my daughter to be alright again.â
In my memories, my parents secretly cried in their room.
My dad, Wendell, said, âPeter told me that Stephie has an emotional disorder and that there are cures for that. The treatments are all well established now. We can send Stephie to him if youâre okay with that.â
âWendell, our daughter is still so young. Do you really want to send her to a mental hospital?â
âShhâ¦â I recalled my father anxiously comforting my mother. âThen, what do you suggest? She smashed that boyâs head without even blinking an eye!
âNo kindergarten is willing to take Stephie in anymore. In the last kindergarten, she bit off a male teacherâs finger! This child is too fierce.â
âDidnât Stephie say that the male teacher bullied a little girl? You saw it in the surveillance footage too! That male teacher had issues!â Juliana argued logically.
âItâs not about who has issues now. Itâs about Stephieâs way of handling and solving problems. This is not a method a child should be thinking of. What child would bite off someone elseâs finger?â
Juliana fell silent.
âMoreover, in the kindergarten before the last one, she pushed a little girl off a slide. Sheâs too cold-
hearted!â
Even though that little girl had pushed me first and I had merely returned the favor using the same means, I was somehow the one who appeared too coldâhearted in the eyes of others.
In my y memories, everyone saw me as a wicked girl when I was young, the kind of person that everyone was afraid of.
âAnd havenât you noticed that Stephieâs dog would only listen to her? Itâs too eerie a just Georgie;
even the animals in the circus were all staring at Stephile back then.â
cary. And itâs not âStop trying to scare me! Stephie is normal. The circus animalsâ riot was because the animal trainers had abused them. What does that have to do with Stephie?â
âThatâs exactly what Iâm afraid of. What if Stephie could even talk to a bear?â