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After breaking up with Michael,I cut off contact with the outside world for three full months.
When I resurfaced,I became an art teacher at Eastwood Primary School.After that incident,the Johnsons couldn't stay in the neighborhood any longer.Mr.and Mrs.
Johnson moved with Ethan and transferred him to a new school.I moved and changed my job too,following them.All for the chance to get close to them and,quietly,kill them.
Surprisingly,Ethan seemed to have prosopagnosia.I just cut my long hair,put on glasses,and changed my usual style of dressing,and he didn't recognize me at all.
Perhaps my smile now was so kind and amiable that this child was extremely well-behaved in front of me.So well-behaved that sometimes I hesitated whether to kill him or not.
But once the seed of hatred was planted,with a little bit of blood and tears,it would grow wildly.
During the art class that day,Ethan walked up to the podium with his drawing,looking very proud."Ms.Summer,look.This is the one-eyed man I drew."
My body trembled violently.I lowered my eyes,hiding the hatred in them.I tried my best to control myself and said softly,"It's very well-drawn~"Then I leaned close to Ethan's ear and said,"Meet me at the park across the school at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon.I have a surprise for you.Remember,don't tell anyone."
Ethan nodded obediently and returned to his seat with a look of joy.The happier the smile on his face, the more uncomfortable I felt.
Why could he kill someone and still live well,while my little uncle,who had done good deeds all his life,had to die painfully?Tomorrow,I would end it all.
As soon as the class bell rang,I rushed to the parking lot.I had to go to that place in advance to make arrangements and wait for tomorrow.During the three months of cutting off contact,I drove around the suburbs again and again.
Finally,I found a fairly secluded place,a riverside area at the foot of a mountain.By the river,there was an abandoned small hut.Inside,there were some buckets,basins,and magnets.
It seemed that it was a temporary resting hut built by people who came to suck iron sand from the river.After the iron sand in the river was sucked up,the hut was abandoned.
The river at the foot of the mountain was about two meters wide.The sand at the bottom of the river could be seen clearly on both banks.Looking towards the middle,because of the depth of the water,it was not so clear.
I had heard from the old people in the village before that one should not go into a river where iron sand had been sucked.Under the river,there were basically deep pits and holes.
The sand at the bottom of the river was also soft.If one was not careful and fell in,they would disappear.For me,this was an excellent place.I could kill and sink the body nearby.
In the small hut by the river,I took out the two boxes of firecrackers with the words"torpedo"on them.
I wrapped them together with thin silk threads and then stuck them with tape.I made a net that could be worn.Looking at the net that resembled a human figure,I became more and more excited.I was looking forward to tomorrow even more.
