William smiled slightly, but said, “But Agatha, Bertrand is still a child. Even if he peed in my glass, it was just him being naughty. Please don’t be too harsh on him over this.”
“What?”
My mom screamed in surprise when she saw William’s face filled with genuine pity. “He actually peed in your glass?”
My mom raised her voice as she glared at me, shouting, “Bertrand! Is that what I taught you since you were a child? All those years of studying, were they all for nothing? How could you become so cruel?”
I was stunned because I had never peed in a glass. But when I looked at William’s expression, the contempt in his eyes seemed to say he had just made up a lie. My mom would believe it and punish me severely.
“What?”
“Agatha, you didn’t know?”
“Oh dear, it’s all my fault. If I had known you didn’t know, I wouldn’t have said to you. I thought you knew about it.”
William’s face looked so guilty. My mom felt even more sorry for him.
“William, you don’t need to feel guilty. You have to be strict, or you’ll spoil the child!”
“Auntie, Bertrand did something wrong. He needs to be punished.”
Celine’s face looked worried. “Otherwise, if he keeps doing this, what will happen in the future?”
“Right, he absolutely must be punished!”
My mom thought hard, gritting her teeth. “But how should we punish him?”
Celine said lightly, “Punish him the same way he harmed Uncle William. Otherwise, he won’t realize his mistake.”
So they wanted to pee in my glass? But I never did like that.
William suddenly said, “Celine, do you want someone to pee on Bertrand? That’s absolutely not allowed!”
Before Celine could say anything, my mom waved her hand dismissively and beckoned to nearby security guards.
“You eight, teach Bertrand a lesson.”
Her tone was as indifferent as if she were disciplining a dog that had rummaged through trash. Then I saw those eight guards approaching the rooftop’s edge, their faces filled with malicious smiles as they looked at me. What was about to happen would surely be a nightmare.
Would someone come to save me? But instead, eight security guards sprayed me with artificial rain. As the filthy liquid hit my face, endless humiliation seemed to seep through my skin, relentlessly shredding my dignity.
I was her son! How could she treat me like this? About Celine, we had known each other since elementary school and were inseparable all the way through high school.