Chapter 19 Convicting Susie
Mara hugged Lulu and coaxed her, “That’s okay. It was Susie who hit you first. Mommy’s good baby. No more crying.”
The expression on Hamza’s face was cold.
He said coldly, “Whether which one hit Lulu first, shouldn’t aunt ask someone else?”
Hamza was speechless. Although he dislikes Susie, he disliked Lulu even
more.
The children around looked at each other.
Mara suddenly pointed to a little girl, “Mia, you speak.”
The girl named Mia froze and looked at Mara and then at her mother with a slight twinkle in her eye.
“I didn’t see it very clearly. It seemed like Susie hits Lulu first.”
Hamza frowned. What did she mean she did not see clearly? It was so obvious that Lulu hit first, how did it become Susie hit first?
“What did you say? Say it again.” He stared at Mia. His voice was as cold and icy as his dad’s.
Mia hurriedly grabbed her mother’s clothes, with a helpless look on her face, hanging her head and not daring to speak. The crowd looked more speechless.
It said that the Murray family’s newest child had a very bad heart, causing her stepmother to miscarry and then making the Bishop family bankrupt. Murray’s family members spoiled Susie without principle, only to make up for their shame of Clara. Now looking at this scene, it seemed to be
true.
“Don’t scare Mia either. She’s just telling the truth.”
“Susie will be spoiled like this. Although she grew up without a mother and was poor, how could she act like this?”
Lulu cried even harder when she heard that everyone else was on her
side.
Hearing accusations, Susie clenched her fist and did not understand why every time the adults said she was wrong but she did not do anything
wrong.
Was the world of adults different from that of children?
Susie insisted, “I’m right. She lied. My uncle gave me that dress. She hit me first.”
Before she could finish her words, Mara interrupted her, “That’s enough. Your sister’s face is like this, what more do you want to say?”
Mara squatted down and hugged Lulu, “Baby, no more crying. Let’s go back first.”
As soon as Lulu heard the word ‘cry’, she cried even harder.
“I don’t. I don’t want to go back. I want my dress.”
Susie’s explanation was just drowned out by her cries. She stood alone in the middle of the crowd, surrounded by people saying one thing and another, and what she wanted to say was suppressed.
Hamza’s face was tense, a sister was in trouble.
Just as he was about to pull Susie behind him, a tall figure picked Susie up first.
Martin looked around the circle and asked in a cold voice, “What’s going on?”
His face was cold and frightening, and Mia instantly wimped out, hiding
behind her mother and not daring to come out.
“Lulu just ran over and said Susie’s dress was hers, so Susie beats Lulu up without saying a word.”
“Yeah, Susie tried to press the cake in Lulu’s face.”
Martin sneered, “Is this what you saw with your own eyes?”
Craig also came over, leaning on his crutches, “Susie is not such a child. Which one said Susie is wrong? Come out and I will see.”
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