Chapter 6

The officers’ patience ran out. “Alright, that’s enough! Alex Miller, you can go. Tiffany, you stay here for further investigation.”

Tiffany wasn’t happy. She sat directly on the floor, kicking her legs and waving her arms like a child throwing a tantrum, or a woman completely losing her mind. “You just think I’m an easy target because I’m a girl with no family or background! He clearly saw me being assaulted and just walked away! That’s wrong!”

“He deliberately let me be humiliated! He deliberately wanted to see me embarrassed! People like him should go to hell!”

“My life is ruined anyway, and even if it is, I’m taking someone down with me! Alex Miller, who did this, can’t get away with it!”

…

I rubbed my ears, watching her in exasperation. “I just passed by that road, and that makes me a criminal? That means I deserve to die? There must have been other people passing by that night; why don’t you go after them? Oh, I know! Because you and I are from poor backgrounds, with no one to back us up, so you just randomly accuse me?”

The officer frowned, looking at the girl on the floor. “Tiffany, you’d better get up and cooperate with our investigation, or your behavior could constitute obstructing an officer in the line of duty, and the consequences will be severe…”

Tiffany froze, then quickly stood up, embarrassed. “I… I was just angry and confused. I didn’t mean to obstruct you. Let’s continue, let’s continue.”

I gave her a long, hard look, then turned and left.

This time, things were already different from my last life. I hoped everything would continue on the right path.

But the next day, right before school let out for lunch, Tiffany burst into the school with the police.

I had just come out of the teaching building when I saw her approaching, and I froze.

This scene was exactly like before. Was she going to put on another act?

Sure enough, she and the police blocked my path. “Officers, this is Alex Miller, the man who assaulted me the night before last!”