Mustering up his courage, Kyle declared, “So be it! This is for Mommy!”

Juan took a moment to mull things over. In the end, he still thought that was a bad idea. “What if Great-grandpa can’t bring it in himself to hit us but shifts his anger to Mommy? He’ll never forgive her then!”

 
 

Kyle furrowed his brows.

That was true. If that happened, they would have simply caused the situation to worsen.

Nevertheless, what else can we do now? We have run out of ideas.

 

Right then, Davin appeared and strode toward them. He had been rather worried about them.

 

“You two are still kneeling?”

Juan hung his head and nodded.

 

“Uncle Davin, do you have any idea on how we can get Great-grandpa to open that door and let us in?”

Davin fell into a thoughtful silence. After a while, he sighed.

 

“You guys are willing to do anything for your Mommy, huh?”

Kyle shot him a suspicious look. Did he really come up with a plan?

doubtful. He

did not reply. He gave them a mysterious

not be the best idea around, at least it’s better than them kneeling here

Five minutes later.

wails growing progressively louder. The utter fear

at the noise. They were fine, merely a moment ago. Why would they suddenly be crying now? And together at the same time

to both of them,

about his earlier anger, he

are you two crying

and Kyle dashed into the room like the hounds of Hell were on their heels. Huge droplets of tears

 

The hallway outside was empty too. He

that aside for now, he started to soothe

took him some effort but they

at Kyle and asked, “What did you see just

seen caused Kyle to whimper and

okay. Great-grandpa is

young

what he had seen, Juan found it rather

been in the hallway, yet he had suddenly felt like he had fallen into the ocean. The salty seawater had threatened to drown him and he had found it hard to breathe. He

softly, “Did you see an ocean

shook his head. “I didn’t see an ocean. I saw this huge monster bite me. I-it tore off my arm and then went

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