When my mother woke up, she was in the police station.
Officer John started explaining as soon as she was conscious, “I did try to tell you, but you wouldn’t listen. So, I
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had no choice but to use her phone to message you, hoping you would understand. You caused a huge disturbance at the river, which came with serious consequences. You will receive the punishments.
“Thankfully, we suspected Vanessa was trying to fake her death and began searching early, so we didn’t delay in solving the case.”
Mom nodded numbly.
mother was eventually sentenced to prison due to her false reports, obstructing justice, and spreading alicious rumors.
Before she was taken to serve her sentence, she finally came to see my corpse. She hugged my decayed body through the cloth, gently kissed my face, and said something she had never said to me before.
“I’m here to take you home, Melissa.”
Then, she took me for cremation.
Just like that, I transformed from a mangled body into a box of ashes.
After that, she rode the Ferris wheel with my ashes. Then, she buried me beside my sister and changed her gravestone name to Angel.
Then, she lost all of her daughters on the day Vanessa was sentenced to death.
That day, my mother climbed to a tall building and jumped off. I watched as her blood stained the ground, just as gruesome as when Angel died.
Slowly, my soul began to fade away.
‘This is goodbye, Mom.‘
