Jesse told her everything would be alright. On this account, even the cold concrete floor could not be bothered anymore. Alexis woke up with the thought that she would be free this day. After a short period of sleeping, Alexis saw some of her friends still had eyes open wide. All acknowledged the fact that Belinda Carter reported the lie. Therefore, some felt comfortable with the situation but some continued to be unsettling. Due to this law directly related to the H01 case, the authority regarded the Risk and the Suspect as harmful threats to the federal republic so did the arrested. As everybody here was caged because of the lie, if the law was strict but just, the authority would not treat them like the criminals for sure. Alexis had faith in justice and Jesse. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡBG8mxyAvNy 維尼
Thanked the luck or whatever, Alexis stayed in the opposite cell that imprisoned Wade and Belinda together. They shouted and stopped and shouted. The heat around them which might be hotter than the heat in summer could be visible to the eyes, as she saw the way friends moved away from their radius and let them fight at the center. They had never been enemies until this day.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7Bh45IHZe 維尼
Belinda had to suffer from the angry eyes of many friends after their parents told them who brought up this trouble, they blamed her for everything. It might be hard to believe that this girl, who was the student president, had done such thing. Firstly, Alexis felt indifferent to Belinda’s behavior but began to feel a little bit frustrated when she insisted her right to do. Sometimes smart people could be unexpectedly stupid but Alexis wanted to learn what the real reason was.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMkHCwTe5Q 維尼
Later, the argument between Wade and Belinda started to be more violent until the other had to intervene or else they might kill each other before being released. It was about an hour and the new fight started. It turned out to be the boring loop.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxsVa23yLz 維尼
After midday, the police came to free some cellmates. At least, the whole cheerleading team was freed. Alexis and Oslo watched their friends walking out of the cell crying with happiness. They were eager to be free like them but as the sunlight withdrew from the small window above their head, they began to be anxious because there were only Alexis, Oslo, Wade, and Belinda waiting for the call, even Wade and Belinda stop fighting.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6um9hSQrC1 維尼
“Why there are only us...left?” asked Oslo wrinkled his brows together. “Is it fishy?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kXpFUYke6 維尼
“There are many people. We’re just the last,” Alexis tried to explain the current situation. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡxn7L3tKUvI 維尼
“Why me?” murmured Belinda. As Alexis saw Wade’s capillary on his forehead gradually danced, she hurriedly talked to him just to shift his attention to herself; or else, they might fight again, “It’s gonna be alright.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡcngP01rJBR 維尼
“Don’t you think it’s weird? We’re all the candidates,” Oslo was still skeptical and then he pointed out the clue.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1lLyoRHG5 維尼
“We’re no more candidates, redhead. Thanks to this bitch,” replied Wade.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsbR5DVXlh 維尼
In a few seconds, Alexis understood Oslo’s point. He was right that it was too long and the only people left were the crème of the school. They should be released since the others were free. It was not a good sign at all.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSRQS5kPpR 維尼
“Just take time,” Alexis summarized with her fingers’ crossed.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV22YXRrSn 維尼
In the late evening, Joseph, a policeman, called them to change their clothes that the parents packed for them yesterday’s night. Horrifying, they demanded the answer from him.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡOI5pFITvVQ 維尼
“Why don’t you free us?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡaA3WiMOpN9 維尼
“Is there anything wrong?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡefzSzcAvv7 維尼
“Please, I can’t stay here any longer!”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93XygYarMN 維尼
“I’ve done nothing!”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFzFlwDNPQ 維尼
“Easy…easy, guys, we found some errors in your profile data. Actually, I don’t have anything to explain so no more questions. Just follow me, okay?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡObA6Fv99tE 維尼
“So cold,” the soccer team captain muttered.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMEZd3EnHZ 維尼
Oslo and Alexis exchanged their looks. Both were confused. But when the girl thought of her brother’s advice, she continued to obey and told her friends to do so. The girls were taken into the women’s shower rooms which were divided into two small booths as same as the shower rooms in the school’s gyms but here was smaller. As they were allowed to wear the clothes that their parents had prepared for them, not the prisoner’s uniform, this comforted them a little bit.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡBC37QvlJ7w 維尼
Jesse, I can trust you, right? 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIHHz3VguU 維尼
It was the longest showering she had ever experienced. Staying with Belinda was the same as sitting on the giant ice cube. They were used to be friendly as an acquaintance but now the former student president acted coldly toward her as if they were enemies for ages. Nonetheless, the change of Belinda’s reaction did not irritate Alexis as much as her non-guilty face. Belinda believed that she did the right thing even telling the lie. It was really upset to live with this type of people who blamed everyone but themselves and hated everything but forgot to fix the attitude.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdqPO9OYV5 維尼
First, June, now Belinda…Alexis exhaled tiredly.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQMOuOUdTr 維尼
She was confident that their family must take a visit and hoped to get them back but because there was no order to release the adolescents. They might be sitting somewhere in here or mournfully staying at home waiting for the call.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡMitFKJ1FOr 維尼
“Do you think we can get out?” Oslo asked when they returned to the cell, fresh and clean. At this time, they moved all teenagers to the same cell and there were only them. The other cells were empty. San Bosa was a peaceful town with 0.02% of the crime rate.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiqk1YcIiW 維尼
“I don’t feel like that,” Alexis admitted. Her faith in Jesse began to fade away when the clock ticked and ticked. At this point, her disappointment towards the withdrawal of the government scholarship could not disturb anymore. It was the justice she desperately needed it to exist. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1myCzdrq3y 維尼
“We can. Maybe it takes some time to check our innocence. The video is just a magic prank. And it’s the best evidence to prove that the bitch beside me reported the false information.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMuqc7kRLY 維尼
Belinda glanced sideways to Wade. Alexis tried not to look at the girl when her haughty face had the effect to provoke anger.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsj9zdfbzC 維尼
“That officer did say that there were errors in our data,” Oslo reminded him. “What errors?’8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNt8NoA7St 維尼
Everybody closed their mouth, no idea about it.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QXNiJU7Vf 維尼
“If we…If we can’t get out?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIYgZ98vQ4 維尼
Wade shook his head. “No way! Stop saying that Ossy!”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡRryUEkIvcC 維尼
“Oslo! My name is Oslo.” The boy with red hair yelled. “Bel, why you did it?” Now the boy turned to ask Belinda. Wade did not start another argument which was really thankful. He kept his mouth shut, dying to know too.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡMiy0StYzru 維尼
Belinda hugged herself tightly and budged to the corner, replied shortly, “I’ve done the right thing.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVv6WyeSyD 維尼
Wade evilly laughed. “It’s obvious you tried to eliminate us from the list. You can lie to yourself as you please…arrogant bitch.” He moved away from her as if the girl was the most disgusting insect he could not tolerate to live with while Alexis and Oslo sighed. The girl did understand how Wade’s temper rose easily but it was useless to be frustrated with the person who had no regret for their behavior. The situation attracted her attention more than the will to blame Belinda because it was about her whole life.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oJf2gwUVt 維尼
Can I believe in you, Jesse? Can I still believe in you? She thought. Jesse had never broken his promise or never lied to make her feel better. But there was something wrong. She was so sure about it.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡy74YJmjr0L 維尼
On the next day, the same officer came to wake them up. Thought that they would be free, they were disappointed again when he just came to serve bread for their breakfast. Wade could not control his temper as always. He started blaming on Belinda but this time she chose the other way to fight him by sleeping. And it brought peace to the other two when Wade had no counterparty to challenge with for a while. Anyway, the heat still existed when Wade tried to make Belinda answered him why she destroyed his party until Oslo was unable to listen to Wade’s complaint anymore.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡjp0cS5gLhJ 維尼
“Miller! Please shut your mouth. You get on my nerves!”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFAxRCd0en 維尼
Before Wade countered, Alexis stopped the new war, “You guys! We can do nothing. Don’t make another quarrel, please? Wade, trust me. No matter you shout or scream or blame anyone, they won’t come to release us unless they receive the order. Calm down, please?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKd5CEUvEy 維尼
She placed her hands on his shoulder. Like Alexis could activate his wisdom and tolerance modes, he remembered how she told him what Jesse had suggested what to do; the boy shut his mouth finally. In a few minutes later, this time, the policewoman came.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmIXrMQDEN 維尼
“Come with me. The interrogation team is waiting for you.” 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSA3bIzYfu 維尼
They glanced at each other. Only Belinda bubbled to herself, “It’s ok, it’s gonna be ok.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCOT1IXqZX 維尼
“Why we have to be interrogated?” Alexis asked the officer.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡy16KQkA4VP 維尼
She did not give the answer. They had to follow her anyway. These officers did not like being questioned. All of them wore the emotionless face. The police officers were not town’s people. They came from other cities, changing their face every two or three years.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4DzsqdkAt 維尼
The interrogation room had no similarity to the room she had seen in the movie. In the movie, the table stood on the center and the police would perform the interrogation process while the other officers stood behind the glass window listening to the conservation. It was far from likeness and it was scarier. There were no table but four office chairs and four electric chairs that looked like mechanic tormentors in a horror movie. No doubt they were prepared for Alexis and her friends. The atmosphere was not chilling. What would they do to them? Alexis did not understand why they treated them like violent criminals.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡumqE2XpfQ2 維尼
Age of terror, it still existed. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡQb8BZmd1Ra 維尼
They led Belinda to the first chair and she was crying in fear; Wade sat on the second, speechless. Alexis sat on the third and Oslo sat on the last one. Her legs weakened. She watched the police officer locked her arms on the armrests. The police wore the metal helmet with wires connecting to it on her head. Oslo and Alexis exchanged their eyes, wondering why they had to use this kind of methods to them. Four interrogative officers in black suits entered the room and sat on the empty chairs. Two men and two women sat opposite to the boys and the girls. The woman in front of Alexis put the stonehearted mask on her oval visage, with her eyes fixing on the encounter. The two police, one was the woman who brought them here and another one was Joseph, stood as their assistants. The silence frightened them. The time slowly killed their courage. She heard herself swallowing the saliva and also the beating heart.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRBhDoz9KE 維尼
She still could not believe it was real.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3VgNdsmnb 維尼
“Good afternoon young ladies and gentlemen, we brought you here for good information and the truth. Don’t be afraid.” The man opposite to Wade spoke. “We have normal questions to ask you. All we need is the truth, the most truth. You can see that you are sitting on the polygraph. In fact, it’s not the normal lie detector that you may have recognized. Once your mouth spread one lie, the chair will transmit the electrical current to cause an electric shock to you.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnSelSG23r 維尼
He paused and smiled as if demonstrating how to brush teeth for little kids. “Listen carefully, one lie, your friend on the left-hand side will get the electric shock. And you, redhead,” he mentioned to Oslo, “For your lie, Ms. Carter will pay for it.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡPV1XaPywPH 維尼
“To warn you all, don’t try if you don’t want to cause pain to your friend. You understand?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqVpedlX8p 維尼
They slightly nodded. Wade fixed his eyes on Alexis, trying to give a message through the eyes contact that he should not have to sit next to Belinda who was the biggest liar among them.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYabXKpZvh 維尼
“I must be roasted alive.” She heard him whispering. It did not sound joking but serious.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5nIZYC9yP 維尼
“Okay, let’s start with Ms. Carter,” the woman on the right-handed side began. “Ms. Carter, tell me if you reported the false information to us that some of your friends who attended the party at the Miller’s mansion performed something that may involve with the qualifications of being the Risk.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡEac4Tkdul1 維尼
“No”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUI2ByxrW3 維尼
Wade screamed in pain when the electricity shocked him. In her horror, she saw his big body suddenly shaking violently. The scream of pain made her blood run cold. It lasted just one second. Yes, only one second but that one second killed all her optimism. There was no sign of burns but Wade breathed hardly and was still shuddered for a few minutes after the shock.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12fDza9MDz 維尼
“Fuck you, Bitch!” At least, he still had the energy to scold Belinda.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡdkd3rXXFHb 維尼
“Are you alright?” Alexis asked him, shocking; still, her heart seemed like it stopped moving for a while when heard his howl. The boy shook his head telling he was alright with a dreadful look. Alexis was incapable of seeing Belinda but heard the former student president’s sudden sobbing. Perhaps, Belinda might feel sorry to cause Wade’s pain which she didn’t mean to do or she was just too scared.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6hiA3PDTVB 維尼
Dad’s right. This is not a joke. This was indeed a torture room, not the interrogation room. Alexis put all her effort to search for the answer to this arrangement but found none.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmXwJsyCO4 維尼
“May I ask you again, Ms. Carter? Did—you—lie—to—us?” The woman stressed her words.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡobojHtfTIq 維尼
“Y…es”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡileLIqt2Ya 維尼
Nothing happened. Wade exhaled, soothing.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLwdRE3KLh 維尼
“Why did you lie?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡijinSDFxfX 維尼
Instead of answering them, Belinda preferred crying. For a few seconds, Wade screamed again. “Tell them!” He yelled after taking a breath.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡreYFpyhl7e 維尼
“I—I—I want to win the scholarship. I want to get rid of her. If—If she’s withdrawn, I know I will get it.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2CkhmqfOT 維尼
She? Belinda meant to entrap me only? WTH?!8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGY6vZ0hHA 維尼
“She? You mean Ms. Davis?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8aZaLbDHt 維尼
“Yes. Yes, of course. She was likely to win…and I need the scholarship. I didn’t intend to frame all of them but-but I can’t think of the other way to frame only one.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45jloY06cQ 維尼
“My dear, you can win if she wins. The scholarship provides for five students and we don’t have the quota-limited. It is still possible for you all to win together.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJCrKxDQhM 維尼
Belinda sobbed. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkcpKZczKX 維尼
“Thank you, Ms. Carter, you committed the wrongful act in accordance with the Surveillance and Control of the Risks to Humankind Act 2966, Clause 31, the punishment of false accusation committed with the purpose to defame the other to be the Suspect or the Risk, the convict must be sentenced to life imprisonment. You’re convicted.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWb9TNWpVO 維尼
Life imprisonment? Alexis thought that it was excessively severe punishment but if she considered if that false accusation destroys someone’s life, for example, Wade, Oslo, and Alexis were withdrawn from the scholarship, it might not overact. However, if they could prove themselves that they were innocent; this punishment for Belinda was a little bit too harsh.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoZmHnLfSX 維尼
Belinda did beg but Alexis could not catch the words because her pleading fused with her wailing.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcwEHt2KAY 維尼
“Calm down, Ms. Carter. (Who can? Alexis thought.) If your action leads us to discover any Suspect or any Risk, intentionally or unintentionally, in other words, by your luck, the sentence shall be pardoned. Unfortunately, we still have to give you the other punishment instead.” The woman changed her paper, the act of carelessness. “The good news is we found none evidence demonstrating that you are one of the Suspects or the Risks. Therefore, please wait for the others and we will come back to make the final judgment for your wrongdoing again.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiiO3tQxES 維尼
She ended the interrogation with the fake smile while Belinda could not control her emotions well. Life imprisonment meant the end of everything, the bright future, the dream. Belinda might not expect for the softer punishment. Alexis felt the complexity of her feeling towards Belinda, between sympathy and satisfaction.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡeARl8hFzav 維尼
The man who had to interrogate Wade moved his focus from Belinda to the boy in front of him. He arranged a pile of papers several times before questioning Wade.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uBmk3h9Er 維尼
“Mr. Miller, please answer our question carefully. Do you have any idea about this?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡCa9ZCa5eGA 維尼
He showed the photo of Peter walking on water. Because the picture had been captured from the video clip, its quality was not good. Wade held his breath, ready to answer. “We tried to make a magic trick video to upload in our school community website. You can see it clearly that there is a glass sheet under the water and four boys in the pool carried it. I am the one who recorded the video. In the video clip, it may look like he can walk on water. We tried to trick our friends and intended to upload the second video that reveals the trick after the first one. Anyway, I was drunk and now I see that it’s a foolishly fake video.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGTsj7Zx0v 維尼
No electric shock, Alexis listened carefully. In the deepest sense, she knew he would not lie after experiencing the pain he had experienced and his answer was assuring without any staccato rhythm.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZI0pjOXcD 維尼
“Good. Now this,” he showed another photo. It was the drugs in the party, including packs of cocaine, marijuana cigarettes, and condoms.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhlJNtFVCI 維尼
Wade confessed immediately, “Only one belongs to me. The others, I don’t know.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0SG1taw0v 維尼
“Which one belongs to you?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmsWWmU2MM 維尼
“The cocaine, that one in the blue zip lock.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqmLqX41c2 維尼
“Did you regularly organize sex and drug party?” The officer chortled, so did the others.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcz2x32gPu 維尼
“Once a month, does it regularly?” Wade paused and seemed to concern on his bad mouth. He looked at Alexis to see if his answer wronged to them. When she said it was alright, he continued. “No…sir. It’s normal party. You can find it in every party, teens or adults. They always have these things”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡofRHzVM3WE 維尼
“But they’re illegal and you’re the candidate and the team captain.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡul0bDYgEU6 維尼
“Is condom illegal too?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zFYFXK138 維尼
The eyes of cruelty glared at them. Alexis got chilling when those eyes fell on her. Wade realized his mistake. “My bad, sir. Yes, I know wholeheartedly they’re illegal.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOm1s44N5K 維尼
The man who questioned Wade controlled his temper. The boy had the irritating habit sometimes but he should know when he could do it.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡfnmhX47D0z 維尼
“Mr. Miller, you are convicted of illegal drug possession less than 100 gram and will be fined 50,000 rels or sentenced one year in jail. Unless we find any Suspect or Risk, your punishment will be pardoned but we still have to give you the other punishment. Like Ms. Carter, we found none evidence indicating you are qualified as the Suspect or the Risk, please wait for the final judgment again.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5i2qTyJlQc 維尼
Alexis had expected it but she understood that it was impossible to control the temper when their judgment was clearly unfair.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWPAHriXem 維尼
“Excuse me? Do I have to wait for the final judgment? So if you found any Suspect or any Risk, I have to go to the program with them, right? To seal my mouth and my witness in this room, I know what you’re going to do. Can you tell me how it relates to my offense? This is unfair and I want to pay the fine.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvPPU6yThO 維尼
In a flash of time, the electricity passed through Alexis’s body, she could not help but scream in agony. It lasted just one second but absolutely painful, as if it fed all her energy and all she could do was breathe difficultly. The girl tried to control her stiff hands.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQkbKnzNVe 維尼
It’s not a lie detector. Someone must control it!8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡB39n2ONQQs 維尼
“I’m sorry, Alex. I don’t know it will hurt you,” Wade apologized and kept his mouth shut eternally, losing his courage to be against the judgment that lacked legitimacy. This proved that Jesse’s warning was right. These people had made the decision. They could do nothing but listened to their bullshit.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡmj0azi8g5Y 維尼
“Do you have anything to say, Mr. Miller?” His tone was full of mockery.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpRGqFxTqb 維尼
“No sir,” Wade replied, his hands shaking.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gQXxONF9s 維尼
“Good.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAJMWGRi15 維尼
Alexis lowered her head in disappointment. Jesse was right but not all of it. He was correct about the authority acted like the bully. Like Mr. Miller’s case, she meant Wade’s father who threatened the police with the will to free his child but the outcome was dissatisfied. More importantly, Wade was right. They tried to close their mouth about this cruel interrogation and unjust judgment. Alexis could sense they attempted to accuse them of the wrongdoing they did not commit. She prepared her mind to handle anything that was going to come to her next.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡShRzwTe7T8 維尼
It took a few times for Alexis to discover the answer. If all the adolescents were released, the government would be the fool in front of the public when they listened to the girl’s lie without proper investigation. She thought she knew what would happen to her. The girl clenched her fists. I can handle it. I can prove that they threaten the innocent children. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡcyJRVZ6xOZ 維尼
The woman in front of her revealed a soft smile, the same smile that the psycho murderer showed the victims before slaying them cruelly.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzX80uKexq 維尼
“Ms. Davis, tell us what is your special ability that Ms. Stephen tried to cover it from us?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQwVbemipv 維尼
Alexis sensed the eyes of friends staring at her but she truly did not understand the question how Ms. Stephen related to this case, “Ms. Stephen?” She frequently met this nurse when she was a little but it was long ago. To be honest, Mary Stephen was not the family’s close friend. Bianna, her mother did not like Alexis to play with this nurse.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡQseGPBA0ig 維尼
The corner of her left eye caught how Oslo tried to shrink away but nothing happened.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbr41tWWAR 維尼
I speak the truth and my feeling is true, except that someone’s holding the controller. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEjczrrCrv 維尼
“Yes, Mary Stephen” The officer stressed her words but the girl was still confused.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gfgW62kgq 維尼
Alexis shook her head, “I don’t understand, honestly not’.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8M79oip51C 維尼
And Oslo was still fine.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRRoywmgo3 維尼
The interrogative officers discussed with each other. So she spent this time to survey around the room, learning how the two police stood still like marble sculptures. Alexis could not saw the blond police’s name when her fish tails covering the nametag.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwKJicTSm7 維尼
In a few minutes later, the officer continued her job.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYLphvywaL 維尼
“Ms. Davis, please looked at this screen.” Alexis raised her head, watching the plan of this police station on the screen object whose size was similar to a large book. She had never seen this kind of advanced technology before because the users only touched the screen and could control the application via the display screen. The female officer counted to ten then signaled the police Joseph to unlock her right arm. “Please draw the plan,” she ordered and overturned that tablet.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcXzmjnJvx 維尼
“I’m left-handed sir.” She told him. The cop nodded and changed his position to unlock her left arm.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIHqEjtLwV 維尼
They gave her a transparent sheet and a black pen. Alexis began to draw the plan from her memory. It took about five minutes then she returned her drawing to Joseph. He locked her arm again.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfQXFcyUmG 維尼
The woman laid her drawing on the screen. She showed it to everyone in the room. Alexis’s drawing perfectly fitted in the original plan. The other officers nodded to each other.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWSJmVpRf2 維尼
“When did you discover this skill?8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeIk0sLUls 維尼
“Maybe seven years old, I’m not sure.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ477Dt5DDCn 維尼
“With this skill, don’t you think you’re better than anyone else? Or different from the others?” 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SRl3OkrRg 維尼
“No, it’s just a memorization skill. There are plenty of people have better skills than me or weirder than me. I like it, especially when I have exams.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaJXnlVDNu 維尼
Her interviewer laughed softly and bobbed her head.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMgSBr91WY 維尼
“Did your parents know?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡT61BoUlsnb 維尼
Alexis got stunned for a few seconds because she was afraid they would try to arrest her parents too. “…Yes, they said God gives me a very good gift but it doesn’t make me different from the others.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7o2dfvYhti 維尼
“They did say that? Don’t you think they try to cover it?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNdyaX5Fmg 維尼
Alexis tried to be wise. “No. If they try to cover it they would ask me to hide it but they didn’t.” It was the half-truth but the electric shock had not harmed Oslo. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLHMimgZPj 維尼
“She really thinks she’s normal,” the male officer who interviewed Wade interrupted and all of them were nodding in mutual agreement. Their similar gesture stirred up a strange feeling inside her stomach. These people act like the robots from the same factory. 8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TsRJwScLk 維尼
Alexis tried not letting the nervousness troubling her mind. She spoke the truth or at least, she thought it was the truth and it would not harm her. Their attempt to accuse her would be unsuccessful, the girl assured herself. It’s gonna be alright. I just have a good memory. Father always says that it’s a special talent but not the danger. But what happens to Ms. Stephen? Why did they mention her name?8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zUf3e9Edp 維尼
“Ms. Davis, how do you feel when you’re in a dusty room?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsjgDrRIu9 維尼
“Itchy, I get running nose and rash on my skin. I’m allergic to dust.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjBNWnESLE 維尼
She hated the way they exchanged their eyes to each other.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6t1EpW2C08 維尼
At last, the women declared the judgment. “For your case, we can’t say you have hypochondria because you are made to believe that you’re allergic to dust since childhood. It’s our body that sometimes plays trick to us. Ms. Davis, according to your blood test, you have no allergy in anything, which means that you are 100% healthy and Mary Stephen who recorded this false information in your medical history is trying to cover something about you…from us. And it may relate to the talent you have.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡsk7iIZM6mk 維尼
“It’s a normal gift,” Wade blurted out. Again, another electrical shock ran through Alexis’s body. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIZ8pIsWNI 維尼
“Don’t say anything. Please?” She begged him even though knowing that he just wanted to protect her and himself for the reason that if they found none who could be the Suspect or the Risk, Wade could just pay the fine and returned to his normal life.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3i9PSLXcts 維尼
“I’m sorry to say this, but Ms. Davis, you are qualified to be the Suspect.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEyXFiUzv1 維尼
It was the same feeling when she saw June and Davy together, the emptiness inside her chest. After that, the greatest disappointment started to move her mind.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2P0udkorb 維尼
“I speak the truth and this skill is just a normal skill,” she said to them, trying so hard to control her voice volume.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwyVzS39Fg 維尼
“My dear girl, we’re all in mutual agreement that you’re qualified and need to join our rehabilitation program. Don’t worry, child. We can fix you.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDF1lT6ZMR 維尼
Fix me? Ridiculous. So what? So I can’t argue with your wrong judgment? Alexis tried to steady herself. Be calm. Be calm.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH61x0gwnZ 維尼
It was hard to accept the judgment with the same old obedience because the judgment denoted the undesirable legal process. A few days ago, apart from the heartbroken story that seemed to be ancient, Alexis still saw her life as the new freshman in the medical school of Delphi in the case that she could not win the scholarship, bright and beautiful her life would have been. She would have joined a sorority and the basketball club, taken the other magazine shootings, and returned home during the breaks. Even though her father did not like the model job, Alexis loved it and dreamed to be the famous model and the smart doctor at the same time. Being the suspect means the end of the bright future, the end of liberation, and the dream. The rehabilitation program they claimed to fix people had never succeeded to cure those whom they charged with. No one returned to tell them what they had faced and how. Alexis could not return home, the best place in this world. She could not return to the people she loved.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡkW8DvV13ts 維尼
Is it…the new freedom they claimed?8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOaptgzvSB 維尼
“Is there anything to say to us?”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMwSEbnNmN 維尼
“Obey them,” Jesse voiced in her mind. No, her heart opposed but…How can I do? How can I change their judgment? If I try to defend myself, Oslo will get hurt.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡakaWsAaR1A 維尼
“No” Alexis reluctantly answered. Her eyes brimmed with tears.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJcwfr15Mj 維尼
She was always obedient but what gave her? Her life was ruined. Alexis was not the only one who was crying. Belinda and Wade also realized their fate. We are merely the slave of the corrupted system.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡLI7GcgnSur 維尼
“…So if you found any Suspect or Risk, I have to go to the program with them, right?” She looked at Wade but he did not return his gaze to anyone. I’m sorry. I’m sorry I can’t defend myself and you’re dragged with me.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡjm2GeJyyqL 維尼
The last one was Oslo. She hoped that he would survive from this unjustness. Even so, the man that interviewed him mentioned about the abnormality of his grades recorded by Mrs. Dobies, their math teacher, and was Ms. Stephen’s sister.8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3d3STs3sk4 維尼
“…Mr. Jessens, it is clear that Mrs. Dobies, similar to Ms. Davis’s case, tried to cover something about you. Regarding all of your profile, it is possible that you are qualified to be the Suspect. We all have the mutual agreement to judge that you are qualified and needed to receive the rehabilitation program as same as Ms. Davis.”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡeL5wO8ddMW 維尼
“It’s not clear that I’m one of them. There’s no clear evidence indicating my identity as the suspect. I don’t think I deserve…”8964 copyright protection266ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIXgTwBfB5 維尼
Belinda bellowed in suffering. Oslo closed his mouth tightly. Alexis saw the tears at the corner of his eyes but he held it bravely. In this room, everyone’s name should be removed from this fucking H01 case. They swallowed the bitterness inside because sometimes tears could not release the entire sorrow they were enduring now. How was their future? Who ought to be responsible for it? How would the program treat them? Who knew?270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESJGHZE8uf
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Bullshit, this is bullshit.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UqU9p4Hw9
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