"We're hiding in the bathroom. We don't dare to go out. Her face was scratched by glass and is still bleeding!"

"Mom, calm down. Just hide there together with her. Don't come out until the typhoon is gone."

"But we can't stay in here forever! Who knows when the typhoon will go away? Besides, Alan and Henry are missing! Five of us came out, and now it's just me and Sheila. I'm desperate!"

She kept crying on the phone. I comforted her for a while and then hung up the phone.

They all knew that the typhoon was coming, but they still insisted on going to the seaside. They deserved it!

Served them right!

Soon, Sheila called me.

"Rhea, what are you doing?"

Her voice was trembling, and she sounded very tired.

"I'm eating. Have you eaten yet?"

She became furious at once. "You're eating? You're so heartless! Jimmy, Alan, and Henry are missing! How could you be eating?"

"So what if I'm eating? They're missing, and I'm supposed to starve to death?"

"You're so ungrateful. They're your family, OK? How could you act as if everything was fine?"

"Henry is your husband, and Jimmy is your son. Both of them are missing. And you're not seeking death, are you? You and I are the same. Don't point fingers at me."

She couldn't win me in an argument, so she complained to my mom.

"Mom! Did you hear what Rhea said? They're missing, and she's eating as if nothing has happened!"

Mom took the phone and scolded me.

I put my phone aside and listened to them cursing while continuing to eat.

When my mom was tired of scolding, I asked her, "Have you eaten yet, Mom?"

"What do you think? I can't even go out of the bathroom!"

"You'd better save your strength then. After all, you have to stay in there for a while longer."

After I hung up the phone, neither of them called again. Perhaps their phones died. Finally, I could have a moment of peace.

For three days, I didn't hear anything from Mom and Sheila. Then they came home.

As soon as Sheila entered the door, she pounced on me. "We are so miserable. It's so unfair that you're doing just fine!"

She attacked me first. Therefore, I fought back at once. I slapped her face twice hard and kicked her.

I knocked her to the ground. She was chubby and strong, but she had been very weak these days, so she was no match for me at all.

My mom helped her up at once. "We're family. How could you get physical?