Chihiro opened the door and shouted throughout the house "I'm home!" she went in and closed the door behind her back. The whole house was so dark that you could not even see any outlines even though it was in the late-afternoon at the time of the day. Chihiro switched on the lights and turned around to see her mother sitting on the chair with her father standing by her side with one hand on the chair while the other behind his back, holding something.

"So, how was school today?" her mother asked.

They don't usually care about what I did in school. What's with the sudden change?

"Fine." She replied as if she was cautious of not getting into any kind of loud scolding from her.

"What did your teacher teach you today?"

A pause

"The usual: Home economics, Maths, Japanese, Mathematics and…" she thought back of what happened that time. About how she shouted to the whole class about her life… "Science."

"And did any chaos happen?"

Oh shit, what am I suppose to tell her now?

"No... Just the normal. No chaos. Just peace and quiet."

"But I had a phone call from the principal, saying that someone broke the mirror in the girls' bathroom. Why did you say that there was no chaos?"

Oh shit… now what!

"Because I didn't know, I didn't hear and I knew nothing about it."

"Hmmmm….that makes sense…"

Phew… I thought I was dead by then. I love you God! I…

"But they said that someone, and in fact, it was a girl, who told her whole class about her life story and she ran in, then out of the bathroom, carried her bag that was sitting on her chair and ran out of the school. She was then caught with a mysteriously tall and handsome boy who looked like he was at least 20 years old at the side gate of the school. And apparently, she was making out with him."

Oh god… what did you do? Have mercy on me...please…

"What are you trying to say?"

"Well, I'm saying that I suspect that you were the one who was making out with that guy"

"Do you have any proof?"

"Ah… playing smart huh? Well, of course I have proof. The principal called me as I said before, and he told me that the teacher told him that one of his students, which is you, was caught doing all those things during school. Vandalism, shouting among the whole class when you're no told to, and playing truant."

"And do you have any proof that the principal called you?"

"Would you like to find out?" She gave Chihiro the evil grin as she smoothened the back of her left palm with her right hand's fingertips, showing off her red manicured nails.

"Yes." Chihiro replied with a confident voice. She clutched her fist beside her and looked at her mother with her overflowing amount of confidence.

"I shall not waste my time with you. I have many more important things I have to attend to than you. I have all the proof that I need to can take you to court. Darling, hand it to me." She stuck out her right palm to where he was standing. He revealed a cane that he was hiding behind her back and handed it over to her. Chihiro examined the cane carefully. It was just a normal wooden cane but there was a metal hook attached to the end of it.

"Put down your bag in your room and run back here! I'll give you 10 seconds! If you don't come back within those 10 seconds, I'll extend the number of times I am going to whip you. Starting from now! 10, 9, 8…"

Chihiro sprinted to her room and came back. Surprisingly, she came back within 5 seconds.

"Squat down!" She demanded. Chihiro did as she was told and squatted down. "I'll cane you 30 times and 5 more because you talked back to me. Place your hands behind your head!" She did as she was told and waited for the torment she deserved.

"Count out loud! If it's not loud enough or you counted the wrong number, I'll start all over again."

SMACK!

The sound attracted her brother who was doing his homework, acting like a good boy. He saw what was happening and cheered her mother on "GO MUMMY! GO!"

"1!"

SMACK!

"2!"

"GO MUMMY GO! HIT HER AS IF SHE WAS SOME RAGGED DOLL!"

"Wow son, you've improved on your English a lot. Alright, I'll do this one smack for you!"

SMACK!

"5!"

"Wrong number! Start over!"

After the whole tormenting caning, Chihiro was bleeding on her legs, hands, face, neck, body and the last one was not a cane. It was a punch in the stomach that caused her to cough out blood by her father. She was so dizzy at that time that she could not count the numbers properly 3 times! And that was when she was at the cane before the punch, the 19th cane and at the final punch. All she wished was to die at that time.

I want to disappear from the face of this Earth and be a wondering soul in the sky.