falling angel

Chapter 8

The matter of escaping from the morning prayer with Moon Shadow did not cause much disturbance.Because the nuns are singing hymns, in their eyes, every girl in the nursery school has been purified by God, and it is impossible not to participate in the morning prayer every Sunday.On the night of that day, Yueying prayed in the direction of the church for an entire hour as compensation, but I didn't take this matter to heart.For me, Moon Shadow's evasive words about the mysterious attic really aroused my inner curiosity.On the one hand, I was terrified.For a little girl who is only nine years old, being locked up in an empty house with no light is already a very scary thing. Besides, the story of a female ghost in that empty house is widely circulated?On the other hand, I have always been a rebellious child who is fearless. Ever since I stood against my grandparents and my father, there is nothing scary for me except my mother's tears.Therefore, my attitude towards the attic is dubious.However, the nursery's schedule is so full that I simply don't have the time, let alone the energy, to explore the secrets hidden in the attic on the top of the sixth floor.

During the month that I came to school, my mother and father visited me several times.Every time I come, I will bring me a lot of food and new clothes.The principal will meet with my parents every time, because my father is one of the investors of this school.My mother lost a lot of weight, and her eye circles turned slightly blue. I asked her distressedly: Is it because Dad treats you badly?She just hugged me tightly, printed her kiss on my forehead, and said to me: Yaoyao should stay here obediently, mother is very good.Dad is fine too.After finishing speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Dad. Dad's face was a little ugly, but he didn't say anything in the end.He didn't tell me what my father should say, words that made me feel warm. He just solemnly explained to the principal all my bad deeds in other schools, and asked her to focus on education, not just because I was his daughter. to change educational strategies.The headmaster always had a pious smile unique to clergymen on his face, and he nodded gently and said that I am a good boy.When Dad walked out, I watched him coldly from behind him. He turned his head and glanced at me. The sun shone on his glasses, which reflected coldness and fell to the ground stiffly.

When returning to the dormitory, Yueying must have been sitting behind the curtain, staring blankly at the direction of the sea.I know she's thinking about her mom and dad, and I haven't seen Moon Shadow's mom since I came to this school.On that cold night, that kind and holy mother, who was like the Holy Mother, had been the scene that comforted me to sleep in my nightmares many times, but it became blurred in Moon Shadow's dignified expression that didn't match her age.

I don't know why her mother became so indifferent to Moon Shadow after she remarried, but I'm sure, like my mother, she has many, many helplessness.

"Dad fell to his death from the scaffolding during construction." Yue Ying briefly described the cause of his father's death.Although I don't have much affection for that rude worker, but from Yueying's sad expression, I can see that she was once regarded as a princess by him, and since he left, this beautiful girl can only Put your hopes in the gods.I gently sat down beside her and snuggled up with her, watching the sea in the distance become deep and turbulent. The sun can never reach every corner of the ocean, so the ocean is deeper than the sun.


In the second month of coming to this school, I discovered something new.That is, in addition to the superficial calm and sanctity of this school, there are also some things beyond the control of the girls, that is, the unconcealable sense of superiority and comparison among girls from rich families.In this school, most of the time, the girls wear the regular white uniforms issued by the school.And every week, when the children of this city are allowed to go home, they are a different person.They took off their white uniforms and put on beautiful clothes.I don't go home very often, so my floral dress is only taken out and worn when I'm in the room.And I am a child after all, when I was excited like a butterfly in front of Yueying wearing my skirt, I couldn't feel the imperceptible loneliness in Yueying's eyes.And the ugliness and accidents of this school are far more than that. In the second month of my arrival at the nursery, I saw a few girls gathered in a group in the woods on the campus, as if they were doing something ulterior. thing.Curiosity drove me to them, and when I got closer and closer to them, I heard a girl crying softly.They are beating her!The beating was mixed with harsh curses.I am a very indifferent girl, it is not my business, I will not ask, but when I turned around and wanted to leave, I heard a familiar voice softly among the group of girls Shouted timidly: "Please don't slap me in the face."—She is my angel, my moon shadow.

My heart broke into many pieces at that moment, and my anger burned to the highest point at that moment. At that moment, I believed that I was possessed by the devil, and exuded a kind of evil and power that only a devil could have from the inside out. .I rushed to the group of girls, like a long-starved lion rushing to its long-lost prey.I scratched their hair, dug their skin with my nails and teeth, I even tore a girl's white uniform... Then I heard a girl say to the others in a trembling and terrified voice:
"She's crazy, let's go."

So like a flock of birds and beasts, they fled in all directions.I knelt down, with tears in my eyes, and hugged the white, slender and thin thing in my arms. She was very quiet in my arms, neither crying nor fussing.Instead, I couldn't help but burst into tears.She said to me, Yao, don't be sad, it doesn't hurt at all.She also said, Yao, don't worry about me, in fact, they are not bad girls.Finally I saw many, many bruises, old and new, on her exposed arm.I was so upset and I asked her out loud why she never told me.She said that it was already like this before I came, and she told me that there was only one more person who was sad.

"Why did they beat you?"

Yueying shook her head, very helplessly: "Since I came here, I have never returned home, and no one has visited me. They say that abandoned children are protected by demons."


It was then that I began to understand Moon Shadow's mood.It was also from that time that he swore to be inseparable from her.I don't know if it was my protection that shocked the group of powerful and vicious girls, since then, Yueying has not been bullied again.I don't know why I guard her like this, but in many dreams, I return to the frightening lonely alley when I was seven years old.In the cold of the snow, I huddled hopelessly in a corner where no one cared.Witches and wizards came and went, and the angelic girl took my hand and said to me: "Why are you here? Don't you have a mother?" I also went back to the garden full of gardenia in countless repeated nightmares. Zihua's Xishui Road, watching her mother's blood flow all over the ground.When she woke up crying, she found Yueying was holding her in her arms.She said: Yao, don't cry.Moon Shadow will always be with you.I have no reason not to believe that Yueying and I are good sisters who rely on each other and trust each other the most in this world, and we will stay together for the rest of our lives until death.


(End of this chapter)