Lost Angel

Chapter 5: Continuity

The next victim to die by accident, a death that occurred when Zoe was transferred to another reformatory near Wales, at the time he was sixteen years old. The bad guy named Finn is the big brother of a group that specializes in rarer children and steals gifts left by visiting children's families. Gifts from family members sent to the reformatory were also taken by Finn's juniors. Finn is just a normal child like any other, he was accused of manslaughter at the age of twelve, also the result of domestic violence. Finn is often beaten by his stepfather, but he does not want to fight back because he thinks of his mother. Finn's mother is a poor woman, abandoned by her biological father when she was pregnant with him, when Finn was six years old, she remarried to her current husband. In the six years of marriage, it is unknown how many times Finn was beaten by his abusive stepfather, but in this domestic violence case, it was his mother, an alcoholic husband who was angry because he lost a gamble when When he got home drunk, he accidentally kicked his wife in the stomach.

Finn hugged his mother, and she was holding her round stomach in pain because she was in the seventh month of pregnancy, fresh blood dripping from her calves onto the floor. When the ambulance arrived, she fainted, not only had a miscarriage, but because of excessive bleeding on the way to the hospital, she died right in the ambulance. Finn looked at his mother's stiff body with a big belly that also stiffened, he was furious, but he suppressed a single tear. When he got home, Finn found his stepfather continuing to drink without remembering his mother and unborn brother, who had just been beaten to death by him a few hours ago. Finn stood in front of his stepfather and informed him that his mother and brother were dead, and the father also laughed and shook his head and said a sentence that was worthy of death.

"That's fine, sometimes that's good, what's the point of living such a miserable life." He pointed at Finn's face.

"You should also go with your mother."

Finn said nothing, he went straight to the kitchen, took the knife from the shelf, took it firmly in his hand, and then went to the sofa where his stepfather was sitting, stabbing him with the knife very sweetly. His father looked at him with wide eyes, and Finn looked at him and said a very gentle sentence.

“Then you should go with them too.”

Pulling the knife out of the man's body, Finn sat quietly in his room, not knowing what to do next, in this world who cared about life or death or his existence? Even if it can escape the police pursuit, it still has to find food to feed itself, wandering will be caught sooner or later. So Finn decided to voluntarily go to the police station to hand over the knife and confess that he had killed the person. So he was sent to the Wales juvenile detention center for manslaughter.

The moment Zoe was brought to Wales to meet Finn for the first time, the prison chief looked at Zoe as if he'd never been in pain in his life. Finn hates Zoe because after being imprisoned for a long time in this crime-ridden place, Finn's heart has become completely distorted, it wants to make Zoe taste pain. Every time Zoe receives a gift from an outside relative that is sent in by Finn's juniors. Zoe doesn't want to fight them either, he doesn't need gifts, what he cares about is who sent them to him without even mentioning the sender's name. At the beginning of each month, Zoe gets a gift from an unknown person sent to a reformatory, which is taken away in two seconds by Finn's men.

It was the same earlier this month, when the warden carrying what the practitioners' families had sent into the camp entered the cell to distribute, Zoe was of course the first to have his share. He took the gift he received and looked back and forth, the previous times it was only clothes or food, chocolate candy, but this time Zoe was surprised, there was something more special. Zoe saw an attached letter, a letter in a blue envelope that looked like a greeting card, but he remembered it wasn't his birthday, so it must have been a letter.

His heart fluttered, he didn't know to who he was sending the letter? And what's in the message? His parents died in an accident, and there is no relative, so who remembers him? Who sent you the letter? If it was a mistake, why did he receive the same date all these months, the same practitioner named Zoe James?

While the warden was still standing calling the names of the students who came to receive the gifts, Zoe secretly took the letter in her hand while tucking it inside her shirt so Finn's juniors couldn't see it. Even if all the gifts were taken, he didn't care, the most important thing for Zoe right now was the letter, he wanted to know who was the owner of the gifts sent to him, and what relationship that person had with his father and mother. you or not? Why can't you meet that person when you get out of the camp?

But unfortunately, Zoe's curiosity did not answer, because after the warden left the cell, Finn's juniors came to take his gift. Suddenly, they were about to leave, but Finn looked at Zoe with dangerous eyes, he said to the juniors.

"It has something else in it."

"There's nothing left, you took it all." Zoe sat back in the corner of the room.

“I saw you stuffing something in your shirt, maybe you got a deposit!”

As soon as Finn said that he had money, all the juniors with fiery eyes rushed to Zoe to pull him out, tearing his T-shirt and snatching the letter inside the shirt that was still warm from the owner's body, Zoe was helpless. watched the letter fall into Finn's hand.

"Just a letter, nothing else," Zoe told follow.

Finn smiled smugly at the letter, "Let's see."

He tore open the top of the envelope, pulled out a sheet of pure white paper, and opened it.

"Nothing."

After saying the three words, Finn crumpled the piece of paper into a ball to throw it in the trash, but when he saw Zoe's lustful eyes on what was in his hand, he changed his mind, Finn opened the paper again and then bit by bit. little bit tear it into pieces, so small that even if someone wanted to put it back together to see it, they would not be able to see and understand what was written in the letter. Finn once again smiled smugly with the boys out to the ballpark, leaving Zoe hunched over looking at the scraps of paper on the floor. In binding, only a few letters can be seen on each piece. Zoe sighed and picked up a small piece of paper with only one word left that he could see "Neil".