falling angel

Chapter 3

During those days, I was like dust floating in the sun at home.Mom is busy getting pregnant and dad is busy taking care of pregnant mom.Even the nanny at home rarely has time to say a few words to me.The doctor said that my mother was weak and needed rest.So my mother stayed at home all day long, and the nanny delivered meals to the bedroom.


Grandma is uncharacteristically, from not making one phone call a year to making two or three calls a day.I suddenly understood something - it turned out that I was not expected since I was born.Yet I can't speak, and I don't know how to speak.I know that the coming life will completely destroy my original happiness.


It's just that everything came too suddenly, so suddenly that I couldn't get used to it, such a gap.


I attribute all of this to that little life that has not yet been born, and I don't know if it is a younger brother or a younger sister.


Maybe it was to express my dissatisfaction, maybe to prove my existence, I began to become a really naughty child.I deliberately messed up everything in the house, and shook all my father's favorite crabapple flowers to the ground.At the beginning, my father felt that he owed me, and he would buy me some dolls and rare candies, ignoring my mischievous behavior, but later, my mother fainted twice, so that he no longer had the mind to pay attention to my mischief.

I saw my father supporting my mother, walking again and again on the Xishui Road where the three of us used to take walks.I saw the gardenias blooming, thanking again, being blown by the wind, like snowflakes, embellishing the backs of the two of them, no, the three of them as the ending of a fairy tale.I am the scenery that was forgotten by them.

I tossed back and forth in the nightmare, cursing the witch who cast a spell on me countless times in my heart.However, none of this could stop him from arriving as scheduled.That year, a rare heavy snow fell in this southern city.My younger brother Xiao He was born.


I can't describe my feeling when I saw Xiao He.In my mind, a child who is cursed by a witch should have a pair of slender ears and be extremely ugly.In this way, I have a reason to attack him and fight him to the end.And my brother, he's beautiful beyond reproach.His eyes were as pure as water, and the way he cried was so charming.The moment I saw him, I knew that he would replace me and win more love from my parents.


I shook his soft little hand gently, and looked up to see Dad with smiling eyes.

Mom seemed weak, she told me: No one wanted to snub Yaoyao or abandon Yaoyao.Yaoyao and her younger brother are both mother's treasures.All my immature pretense fell apart at that moment, and I threw myself into my mother's arms, crying loudly.Crying and crying, I saw my mother's face dimmed a little bit.I stopped crying and looked up at my dad, who was taking an international call from my grandma.I can hear grandma's excited voice clearly from here, and I blurted out: "Dad!"


Dad waved at me, motioning me not to speak.So, I watched my mother's face getting paler and paler.I realized that something must have happened to my mother, but I was stopped by my father's gestures several times when I tried to speak, until grandma finally stopped her endless nagging.


And when he finally turned around and saw his mother, she was already unconscious.Dad's face changed instantly, and he shouted towards the door: "Doctor, doctor!" Then, I saw my mother who had just walked out of the operating room and was pushed into the operating room again.I don't know how long it took before the doctor came out.He told his father with a serious expression: a strange shadow was found in the mother's womb.The doctor said: It may be something like a tumor that grew during pregnancy.

"Is it life-threatening?"

The doctor shook his head: "I can't be sure about this. Your wife had a massive postpartum hemorrhage just now, and a comprehensive examination can only be done after she recovers. As for the tumor, it may be benign, or it may be..."

I stared at the doctor's face in astonishment, not knowing what a tumor was or what a hemorrhage was.All I know is that my mother may be in danger because of my brother's birth.As a result, the goodwill that had just ignited in my heart disappeared in an instant.When Dad turned to walk away, I sneaked behind the doctor and grabbed his white coat.He turned to look at me in surprise:

"Is there something wrong, kid?"

I looked up into the doctor's eyes and asked him, "Does Uncle believe that there are witches in the world?"

He smiled: "There are no witches in this world."

I shook my head, and then told him firmly: "Yes! My grandma is. She put my brother in my mother's stomach, and then my mother bleeds so much. My brother, he has the mission of a witch!"

The doctor froze for a moment, then laughed out loud.He touched my head and said to me, "Little girl, you will understand when you grow up." I suddenly felt a little angry because he didn't believe what I said.

"Just wait and see, he will reveal his identity soon."

I raised my neck, as if I was the knight who could fight the witch.Back in the ward, I saw my father and mother smiling and teasing my younger brother who had just been born.His little hands waved gently in the air, with a ignorant and pure smile on his face. ——They didn't notice at all, I didn't follow me just now.A kind of deep loneliness grabbed my whole heart.

I shut myself out and left the hospital alone.Not long after I walked, I got lost.I thought that walking towards the road with plum blossoms would always lead me home.But I found that in this city, there are so many plum blossoms blooming in this season.I remember that my home is at the end of a very wide road, and there are many beautiful villas and gardens along the road.The houses on the side of this road are low and gray, and the road is bumpy and rough.The snow that just fell has been trampled by pedestrians.On that narrow and bumpy road, it merged into a black stream.

I watched pedestrians on the side of the road staring at me inexplicably.Many of them were strangely dressed, a little scruffy, unlike anyone I had ever seen.So I wanted to turn my head and walk back, and suddenly found myself standing in an intricate place, with countless intestine-thick and thin paths criss-crossing, and I was standing at their criss-cross nodes.

It was getting dark little by little, and I was so frightened that I didn't dare to move another half step.The street lamps on both sides came on lazily.There are not a few complete street lights on this road, so everything is shining strangely in the dim light.I felt like I was in the coral grove where the witch lived in "The Daughter of the Sea".Those crooked trees are the coral of witches, and those pedestrians in strange clothes who ride cars and walk on the road are like wizards and witches flying around on broomsticks.

I hid in a corner of the street, crying silently.I cry because I am afraid.And the reason for being silent is because I am afraid that my crying will attract the attention of witches and wizards.


I have been hiding behind the billboard of a shop on the side of the road, feeling cold and hungry.I think Hongmei, the nanny, must have made delicious preserved egg porridge. Mom and dad should find out that I am not here at this time. They must be very anxious, right?The tears on his face dried up, and he felt pain like being cut by a knife blown by the wind.Just when I thought I was going to spend the night like this, I heard a beautiful and ugly voice in my ear:

"Why are you here? Don't you have a mother?"

I looked up and saw the first angel in my life.


(End of this chapter)