[The chapter starts off of an old man sitting on top of his open car holding a rifle pointing it towards a 7 year old little girl that's surrounded by empty bottles and he's shooting the bottles. The little girl is scared and shivering tears are streaming down her face. He then told one of his mans to put an apple on the little girl's head. The old man's men are laughing and smiling at the situation. The little girl is sweating and shivering the old man then yelled at her to stop moving she got scared and stood in place. The old man then gave out a question towards his men]
Old man: Can one of your guys tell me how this little girl would stop breathing. When she starts moving what will happen to her
[All his men at the same time said "she'll die!"]
[The old man smiled and chuckled]
Old man: if I miss..her head will be split in half. Now let's get started, start counting
[His men started counting "1!" "2!" "3!!"]
[the old man shot at the apple and blew off the apple. The little 7 year old peed in her self and started shivering more. The men started laughing and clapping. The old man then threw his rifle at one of his men and walked towards the girl. Once he approached her he held her by the neck]
Old man: so..did you have fun, did you see my wrath
[He then smacked her slightly by the cheek and said "I never ever miss"]
[He then grabbed the fallen apple he shot from the ground and forced her to eat it. The little girl then ran away from him while the old man just chuckled]
Old man: she's such a brave girl
Men 1: of course she's brave sir, since she's your daughter she'd obviously be brave like her father
[The old man got pissed but didn't say anything. The little ran ran towards her house with her dirt muddy feet]
Cleaner: Hey where are you going your feet are dirty!
[She ignored the cleaner and the cleaner ignored her. Her muddy feet left all her imprints. She ran inside towards the kitchen and hugged her mother]
Arya: Alexis, you've been playing outside the whole time now you remember your mother
[The little girl's name is Alexis, she was still shivering and scared tears were still streaming down her face. Her mother turned around and faced her daughter with worries]
Arya: Alexis..what happened sweetie? Why are you shivering and sweaty? Baby why's your hair burned? Tell me what happened?!
Alexis: daddy
Arya: your dad?...did he hit you again?
[Alexis nodded her head no]
Arya: then what Alexis tell me what happened over there
Alexis: he put an apple on my head and shot it
[Her mother has lost her words she was really scared for her daughter she said nothing but hugged her tightly]
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Sweet Lies
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