[BL, MTL] I'm Not Shouldering This Blame

Chapter 59: Running Away

On the east coast of the United States, the state of Massachusetts is experiencing a snowstorm.

The snow outside the house was already thicker than the calves, and the three steps in front of the door were all buried under the snow, and the sled dog that went out for a walk smashed into it with a heel. The neighbors laughed merrily, and the sound of Christmas music came from the open door.

Yes, today is Christmas, December is coming to an end, and there are six days left until the New Year.

Johnson Brown was lying on the windowsill on the second floor, the neighbor's teenager wearing a hat and a mask, playing with Sajoy's dog in the snow, and the lights of the house were warm and beautiful in the dim wind and snow.

He turned his head and closed the curtains.

It was cold in the room, and Johnson was wrapped in a thick woolen blanket, his face white from the cold.

The heating in the house broke down last night and didn't work, the room temperature was low.

Johnson's hometown of Nansu does not have such a heavy snowstorm, and the winter is much warmer than here, Johnson has never seen such a heavy snow, and now what he sees in his eyes is not novelty, but gray fog as quiet.

The house was a mess, like it had been destroyed by a monster.

The wardrobe was torn with a large hole, the fragments of the vase were piled up in the corner, the sconces were skewed, and the bed was missing a leg that could only be cushioned by a book. When Johnson sat up, the bed made a tooth-aching sound, as if it would fall apart in the next second.

There was no one at home.

The whole house was empty and cold as ice.

- Katie and Charlie, going out to fight again.

The newlyweds, who are Johnson's new guardians, are said to have had no legal adoption paperwork yet, and Johnson is temporarily living here as a relative of the hostess.

The hostess, Katie, is Johnson's former public school teacher, and she is beautiful and kind.

Her husband, Charlie, is a good-hearted lawyer who is always kind and warm to his children.

That's all Johnson knew about them, but when he arrived in Bongolo, Massachusetts, and lived with the couple, Johnson found that they weren't what he had imagined.

The "enthusiastic" lawyer, except for work, never goes out, does not participate in community activities, rarely greets neighbors, and once when he returned home late, he kicked the neighbor's dog hard.

Katie, who is kind-hearted, does not volunteer or go to church to help distribute food.

They say that because the burden on the family has increased, they can only devote more time to work. Their smiles are still warm and kind, and they care deeply about Johnson, but their relationship is not very good.

One night, in the middle of the night, Johnson heard an argument downstairs in his sleep, he rubbed his eyes and got up, and quietly walked to the door, he heard Katie arguing violently with Charlie, seemingly over money, the cost of the family's accounts.

Such quarrels, Johnson used to hear every day in the ghetto.

He walked back to his bedroom and wondered if he had made the wrong decision, that he shouldn't have left Nansa and put Miss Katie's home in doom.

The city of Pedorion was so badly affected by the hurricane that the city was almost in ruins, and those who did not evacuate in time were put on the list of missing, and some of their bodies have been found.