By the time Alex gets home, it is getting late night.
He walks to the door and is surprised to find that the door had been shut and had been locked with many locks. So he can’t get in. Alex knows it is the children’s masterpiece.
Alex takes out his cell phone and made a call to the children, but nobody answers the phone. He looks carefully and finds a letter left for him at the door.
“Teachers said that all disciplined places will have a curfew. We made an eight o’clock curfew. Nobody can get in after eight.
Curfew? Alex never heard of any curfew in their house. It is probably a complaint from the children about his going out early in the morning and coming back at late night, but he can’t tell them now that he goes to see their mother every day.
Wait. Why not? Alex asks himself. The reason may simply be that he doesn’t want Miya to think that her disguise had failed.
“Isn’t it so cruel to treat Dad like this?” Joey leans over the window and looks at Alex who is upset.
“Cruel? Mommy's still missing? But there is his news about love affairs with the bitch every day. Did not you hear his news all over the school?” Ben says angry. And he looks at Alex with hatred.
Joey twitches her mouth. She doesn’t know what’s wrong with Ben recently. He is moody. He never gave her a nice look since the day they quarreled. Joey doesn’t even know if she did something wrong to make him angry.
“But…” Seeing Alex's back in the dark, Joey feels sad, “But daddy looks so miserable.”
“He is miserable? What about mommy?” Ben snorted, “No wonder mommy ran away from home, because you are not standing by her.”
“Ben, you go too far to say so! You are not the only one who worries about mommy. We all worry about her.” Andre stands up and tries to stop the coming war.
“That is right, Ben. I am also sad about mommy’s missing.” Joey looks at Ben. The lights are not on now. They are all seeing things by moonlight. Ben's face is sullen in the moonlight. He looks at the others coldly and gives off a cold air. It scares her.
Andre and Louis also look at Ben.
“You are really a fool.” Ben snorts, then turns and goes back to his room, “Anyway, I would never feel pity for anyone who made Mommy sad.”
“What is wrong with Ben?” Joey looks at Ben’s back and is confused.
Andre shakes his head. He doesn’t know what had happened to Ben, either. Ben is nervous recently, as if he is the only one who is right and the others are wrong.
Louis is smart and suddenly he says, “He said he heard something at school, so maybe something happened to him at school.”
Joey and Andre think it makes sense.
Ben is a talented person, although they attended school together, but Ben is in a better class with best students. And his class’s study time is much longer than others and they usually study six days in a weak.
Andre had a chance to get in Ben’s class before, but he was a little nervous about leaving Louis alone in his regular class, so he gave up.
If Joey knew what her brother Ben really thought, she would go up and scold him. She is in the regular class, too. Why doesn't Ben care about her?
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