Chapter 226

• "Stop crying." she came patting me on my back and I wanted to wish her away from here, she had no respect for personal space, "Do you want a lollipop?" she fished it out from the pocket in her dress and pressed it in my palm, "Don't be sad anymore."
• "Thank you," I whispered unwrapping the sweet and pushing it in my mouth because she peered at me like she expected me to take it. She smiled at me exposing some of the spaces in her teeth missing tooth and my heart ached.
• She's young and innocent, oblivious to how evil the world is. She's six and she gets to wear pretty dresses and do her hair, when I was her age I was confused as to why grown women put their hands down my pants and made me put mine down theirs.