[Comprehensive British and American] Capernaum

There are a lot of things that happened in Coleman's house recently, such as Esther swearing, spying on Kate and John's flirting, which is relatively minor; Going down, Danny was so scared that he could only shout sorry, and Esther just smashed the pigeon into mud with a rock to free him (Ronika: No, I didn’t think I did it wrong, I mean it’s dead anyway , why not pick it up and make pigeon soup?)

I'm sorry, she feeds pigeons in the orphanage because they are still alive, there is no need to kill small animals, but why not make soup when they are all dead?

For another example, Esther was bullied by the children in school because of her conservative and old-fashioned dress, especially a girl named Brenda.However, because Ronika and her age gap are too big, the two are not in the same school, so they only listened to one ear at the dinner table.

"Tomorrow afternoon, I will take the children to the playground." John said while cutting the steak on the plate.

The next day, he took the three girls, Ronika, Esther and Max, to a small playground in the community. As a cool boy, Danny expressed that he wanted to play something else with his brother, so his father said nothing. Let him go.Esther likes the swing, Max is on the slide, and Ronika is waiting at the entrance of the slide. When her sister slides down, she reaches out and hugs her, and kisses her delicate little face. The two girls smile very happily .

At this time, Brenda arrived on a bicycle, and Esther's gloomy eyes immediately focused on her.

"Oh, John, are you okay? I haven't seen you for a long time." The female neighbor next door, wearing revealing clothes under her coat, came to his side.John just glanced at her and knew what she was going to do, but he didn't think about it, so he refused.

When he turned his head, Esther was no longer on the swing, and Ronika was still holding Max. The two girls gestured in sign language and muttered for a long time, then ran towards the swing, one sat on it, the other shook the swing, John walked over with a smile.

He had something to say to Ronika.

He patted Max on the head and asked her to go to the sand table to pile up small animals. While looking after the child himself, he asked, "How are you doing here, are you still used to it?"

Ronika replied in the sign language she had learned: "I'm fine."

"You're a big kid, you probably don't like to play on slides and swings, Ronika, what do you like to do? Draw like Esther, or play games like Danny." John smiled and suggested gently Said: "You will grow up soon, have you thought about what you want to do in the future? Kate and I will support you, and you don't have to worry about the cost of going to college. We will not let you leave after you."

What do you like to do?Ronika tilted her head, thought about it seriously, and gestured: "I don't know, no one told me what to do."

"No, no, you don't need others to tell you, but you like it yourself. Look, Dad is a designer, and Mom likes music and teaching. What about you?" John encouraged the children to say what they want, "I want to do whatever I want. Yes, such as astronauts, dancers, even if you say you want to go to Wall Street."

Ronika bent her eyes and smiled, as if thinking of something, she made a flying gesture with her hands: "I want to be a superhero."

Well, this goal is a bit ambitious, John thought, how can he tell the little girl tactfully that there are no superheroes in the real world?Well, maybe we can change the angle, he nodded and said, "Do you want to be a superhero? Is Ronika trying to protect others?"

"Superheroes, super cool, and fly."

"...Honey, not every hero can fly."

"And they are all very powerful, and they can defeat bad guys. If I become a superhero, no one can hurt me." The little girl blinked her dark blue eyes, which were like the boundless sea, pretending to be innocent. And direct desire.

John's throat was a little choked, and after a long time, he slowly asked, "Did someone hurt you before?"

Ronika shook her head and gestured blankly: "I don't remember, but I dream about ghosts every night." Who can protect her?Ronika was at a loss for a moment. She was not afraid of the ghost, because she had an inexplicable confidence that the ghost couldn't kill her at all.

But from the beginning to the end, she was indeed alone. For example, on the day of the thunderstorm, Esther and Max hid in the parents' room to sleep because of fear, but she would just sit on the head of the bed with her knees hugged, with a calm expression on her face. Looking at the lightning flashing through the window, because she knew deep down that no one would come for her, no one would hug her to comfort her softly, and no one would isolate her from danger.

She had only herself, so calling for help was unnecessary.

"I can still protect Max." Ronika continued to gesture, "I like Max, she is a little angel."

John smiled, reached out and touched the girl's smooth black hair, hugged her gently, and patted the girl's back to comfort her: "Don't be afraid, this is just a nightmare, I will protect you, protect you all."

"However, superheroes are not so easy to do. They require a lot of training, so you can first aim to be a policeman." John guided: "The police can also protect others, and they can also have guns and shout at others. : Don’t move! It’s pretty cool too.”

Ronika asked, "So what did you want to do when you were a kid, Dad?"

"I wanted to be a great detective. When I was young, I was obsessed with reading detective comics. I wanted to solve a big case all day long. I also turned the house upside down, cut out cases from newspapers and pasted them in my notebook. I remember, I still did It’s the one shown on TV, a big detective board with all kinds of evidence connected with thumbtacks and red lines.” John rubbed his chin, as if he missed that time.

"Then how do we do it?" Ronika became interested, her eyes sparkling.

John laughed when he saw this, couldn't help but nodded her nose, and promised, "I'll teach you how to make one when I go home this week."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The girl's shrill screams resounded through the paradise, and everyone ran over. John's first reaction was to protect Ronika behind him, his eyes were as sharp as a sword, and within a second, He took all the surroundings into his eyes, and after confirming that there was no danger for the time being, he lowered his head and said to the child: "Go find your sister, don't come here, watch her."

Ronika nodded, turned around and ran to the sandpit, hugged the bewildered Max, and watched her father run towards the slide castle.Their father is so strong that he doesn't look like a bald designer. He grabbed the pole and jumped up, and he reached out and grabbed Esther who was running around, and saw that he fell in the snow. Brenda.

"What's going on, Esther?" John asked in a low voice, staring at the nine-year-old girl, but seemed to be able to pierce people's hearts and recognize lies.

For a moment, Esther, who has always been calm and has seen strong winds and waves, panicked, but she still calmly replied: "We were playing together, she fell, and I ran away in fear."

Lying, a calm and indifferent voice came from the bottom of my heart, which startled John himself, and before he could think about it, Brenda's father ran over and shouted around his daughter.Brenda, who broke her calf but was still conscious, screamed and yelled at her dad, "It was her, it was Esther who pushed me off!"

Brenda's father wanted to ask John for a theory, but he couldn't let go of his daughter, so he had to send the child to the hospital first.

John looked at Esther, who said pitifully, "That's not the case, I didn't push her, we were just playing around."

I believe you ghost, Ronika hugged the curly-haired little angel Max, and complained in her heart, your malice towards Brenda is almost jumping out.

Obviously, Ronika is not the only one who thinks there is a problem with Esther, even Kate has begun to suspect. In fact, the relationship between the two has not been very good. Esther always exists in front of John intentionally or unintentionally. Sensational, provocative Kate hostess position.

Although John was very moved and refused, Kate obviously couldn't bear it.

She invited Sister Abigail to inquire further about the situation of the two girls before they were adopted, especially Esther's.When she heard that Esther might push a girl, the nun's face changed, and she said, "This kid always seems to get involved in things like this. When she was adopted by the Sullivans, there was a boy at school who used to push her." The scissors go through the jaw, and she's there, I mean, she's always there, but every time it's not about her."

and many more……

"Ronika was in an orphanage, and Esther was there when the sleeping children on her left and right were killed." Sister Abigail couldn't seem to believe what she found, and her face became more and more ugly, " There are rumors that the fire in the Sullivan family was deliberately set on fire."

"You mean?" Kate looked at the nun.

"No, that's not what I meant, but I really need to go back and investigate." Sister Abigail left in a hurry after speaking.

Upstairs, Ronika was playing building blocks with Max, when Esther rushed in and gestured to the two of them, saying that a bad woman was going to take her away and wanted their help.Ronika glanced at her, then ignored her, lowered her head and continued to play with building blocks, and Max wanted to stand up, but Ronika also stopped her.

Esther's face changed, cloudy or cloudy, she squinted her eyes, suddenly burst into a fit, and inserted a boning knife from the kitchen directly into Ronika's chest, blood gushing from her chest , Max was frightened, his eyes widened, but he was frightened by Esther's threatening expression, and was dragged away helplessly by the other party.

Ronika fell down, feeling that all her strength was being pulled away, and the blade on her chest was still rising and falling with her breathing. She felt that everything was a bit ridiculous, so she reached out and grabbed the handle of the knife, trying to get it out——

"Ronika!" John, who didn't know when to go home, opened the door to see such a bloody and terrifying scene. His face turned pale, and he rushed over to prevent Ronika from taking the knife away. Hasten death.

He didn't dare to touch his adopted daughter's body, such a small body, why was there so much blood, the man's eyes were full of blood.

"Dad." Ronika opened her mouth.

She pointed to the knife in her heart, motioning for the other party to get it out.Doesn't anyone find it strange?It's all piercing my heart, she can still live until now, it can only show that this knife can't kill her!

John didn't dare to move, he just looked for the phone everywhere to call the emergency personnel, and shouted downstairs: "Kate, where are you!"

But his wife didn't answer, and Ronika's little hand closed on his arm, and he looked at the little girl, who looked into his eyes seriously, and slowly mouthed: "Get the knife out, believe me I."

John shook his head, but the calm and calm voice in his heart sounded again: "Listen to her."

He saw his hands move by themselves, or maybe he didn't want to face the reality, didn't want to admit that such absurd thing was done by himself.John held the handle of the knife without trembling at all. He avoided all the flesh and blood from the wound and pulled it out with extraordinary precision.

More blood poured out, almost wetting the whole ground. Ronika's face was as pale as a dead person, but she looked calm, and patted her father's strong forearm comfortingly, and said softly with her mouth: "Don't be afraid, Dad, I'm fine."

A stream of heat gushes out from the eyes, goes all the way down the blood vessels, and concentrates on the heart and chest. In just a split second, no wounds can be seen on the skin, and the blood all over the ground rises into the air. Condensed into a slender blood line, and then sucked in by the right eye, not even a drop left.

John: ...what did I see, who am I, where am I?

Ronika looked at the torn clothes, her face returned to her rosy appearance, and she sat up on the ground, but saw John step back a few steps like an electric shock, as if his three views had been shattered by her, But there is something complicated deep in the eyes.

"Who are you?" John pulled the corner of his mouth, "No, are you a human?"

Ronika thought for a while, but speaking of it, she didn't seem to know that this was the first time she was killed when she was sober.But John's fearful reaction made her feel understandable, but a little sad.

"Dad." She mouthed again, but when she saw the man's head bowed, Ronika understood.

The girl stood up and stumbled out, and John didn't stop her. She went back to her room, changed into a clean and intact dress, put on the little down jacket Kate bought for her, put on a furry cartoon fox hat and With a matching scarf, put your own things, a little food and water into the school bag, and then carry the small school bag, ready to run away from home.

If she is really not human, staying will only harm the Coleman family, not to mention that Papa John is so afraid of her.

The Coleman family lives in the suburbs, next to the woods, because it is winter, so there is snow everywhere.Ronika entered the forest step by step, and her mind was a little confused. She remembered the ghost before, and the furball bat that bit her.

She doesn't have a home in the first place, so what is she still looking forward to?The tears that fell were hot, and quickly froze on her face. Ronika had to stop by a big tree, took off her gloves, rubbed her hands, and covered her cheeks with her warm palms to melt the tears shed.

She will never have a home.

How to think of home and nothing to think of home.