Chapter 3 Three–year imprisonment sentence.
Chapter 3
At that time, I believed in a saying: when they throw mud at me, I can use it to plant lotus flowers. I carefully endured the malice from my family and sister, never fighting back. But even long after my death, because no one cared about my whereabouts, my body remained unburied, causing my soul to remain restless for a long time.
Now I understand, mud can indeed be used to grow lotus flowers, but one must also be brave enough to seize the right moment to throw it back. Constantly enduring only leads to being buried in the mud.
I packed my clothes and books, loaded them into a wheeled toolbox, and left home. Elodie, this time, let’s wait and see!
With my luggage in tow, I followed the memories of my past life to my English teacher Teagan’s doorstep. When I first arrived at this school in my shabby old clothes, and Elodie led others to bully me, calling me a ‘country bumpkin,‘ it was Teagan who extended a helping hand.
“If you need anything, just come to me,” she had said in my previous life. Back then, I couldn’t speak a word of English. It was she who gave me an old–fashioned tape recorder and tapes, letting me take it home to listen and practice repeatedly.
“Teacher, I have nowhere to go. Will you take me in?” The moment Teagan opened the door, I couldn’t hold back my tears.
Teagan embraced me.
After moving into Teagan’s house, I no longer had to eat leftovers, worry about being woken up by water splashed on me in my dreams, or endure baseless insults. All I needed to do was focus solely on my studies.
Elodie tried multiple times to comer me, but since I went to and from school with Teagan, she never found the opportunity. Instead, my seat began to be filled with dirty
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In the past, I feared my parents‘ beatings and didn’t dare to resist.
Now that I had severed ties with my mother, there was no need to endure any longer. My father had never shown me any compassion; his gaze towards me was always indifferent, as if I were an insignificant person.
“Ahhh!” I threw a pile of junk from the desk at Elodie’s head. She screamed in rage, and I grabbed all the books from her desk.
Elodie, furious, came to hit me. She was tall and grabbed my hair, kicking me in the stomach. I curled up on the ground, clutching my belly, while her followers also came up and stomped on me.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Lena secretly recording the video under the desk.
“You think just because you have the English teacher backing you, I won’t dare touch you? Let me tell you, someone like you doesn’t belong in the same school as me. If you know what’s good for you, go back to the countryside.”
“Elodie, karma will catch up with you. I suggest you be kind.”
I thought of adding fuel to the fire.
Unexpectedly, Elodie couldn’t handle the provocation. She picked up a chair and smashed it towards me. I blocked it with my left arm.
By the time the teacher arrived, I was already bleeding.
Eventually, I was taken to the hospital.
The video footage of me being bullied and beaten began to spread like wildfire on students‘ phones, even reaching other middle schools. The topic of school bullying once again sparked online discussions.
At the hospital, I borrowed a classmate’s phone to call the police.
The police came to the hospital to take my statement and examine my injuries. In the end, I had a fractured arm and multiple bruises all over my body. Due to the video evidence, Elodie was quickly taken away for bullying and intentional injury.
“You can’t arrest me, I’m a minor. I’ll wait for my parents to come,” Elodie sat stubbornly at her desk, refusing to get up.
“Elodie, according to Pheah’s Criminal Law Article 17, anyone who has reached the age of sixteen and commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility. Minors between
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sixteen and eighteen years old who commit intentional injury are generally sentenced to less than three years of fixed–term imprisonment, criminal detention, or control. If the intentional injury causes serious harm, the sentence is between three and ten years of fixed–term imprisonment.”
“You are already sixteen and have committed the crime of intentional injury. Rest assured, it is not particularly severe at the moment. When sentencing, the court should give a lighter or mitigated punishment for minors under eighteen. It will be less than three years.”
