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Ⅲ. FREE

When I returned to my room, I felt all my strength had been drained. Staying in this house only made me feel deeply scared. This strange couple came to the door of my room and kept asking me to go out for different reasons. Seeing that I didn't open the door, the strange woman brought a spare key, and just a moment after the door opened, I suddenly got up the courage, crashed through them with all my strength, and rushed to the kitchen to grab a sharp knife. People tend to explode with great strength in extremely dangerous situations. I decided not to pretend anymore.

However, the woman showed a surprised look, "Great, you finally recovered, mom is really happy!"

"Stop pretending! You're not my mother at all!" I shouted.

The woman pointed to the family photo hanging on the living room wall and cried, "What's wrong with you? Mom and Dad are right here!"

I stared at the two unfamiliar faces in front of me, opened the kitchen cupboard, and took out a bucket of nuts.

"Did you know? I've always been allergic to nuts. When I was a child, I accidentally ate nuts which caused me to have a severe allergy, and since then there have been no more nuts in the house. You are my parents, how could you not know?"

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My parents would never make me feel creepy or scared no matter what they turned out to be. My father is honest, my mother is kind, and we are the people who love each other the most in the world.

I made up my mind and stabbed the strange couple in front of me with my knife. And in that instant, instead of the imaginary spurt of blood, it was as if it had been formatted, and everything in front of me was covered with a blinding white.

I saw Thomas smiling at me and saying, "You did it, Lily," followed by the appearance of my real parents, holding hands and looking at me with a smile, "Sweetheart, you did it." Then they gradually faded away.

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"You're awake, how do you feel?" Thomas asked.

Seeing that I still needed some time to ease my emotions, Thomas and his assistant sorted out the whole process of my healing:

Lily, female, twenty years old, timid and sensitive personality.

A year ago, Lily went to the suburbs for a holiday with her parents, but she met a couple who had already been wanted by the police. They passed Lily's villa in the process of absconding, they wanted to rob it, but unexpectedly they met Lily's mother who went to the bathroom. They were afraid of the revelation, so they killed Lily's mother. Lily's father was awakened by Lily’s mother's screams, he immediately realized that something had happened. He ran to Lily's room at the first time and let Lily hide under the bed. The couple soon found Lily's father. Lily hid under the bed and watched her father be killed.

After that, Lily suffered from survivor syndrome, she felt great guilt and resented why she didn't dare to run out to help her father. Her personality caused her to live in pain, and she even has symptoms such as delusions. To help her recover, I hypnotized her several times. She regarded me as her boyfriend, and the persuasion of people around her symbolized her cowardly instinct. However, the deep love and bond between her and her parents enabled her to finally overcome her fears, destroy the enemy that plagued her heart with her own hands, and gain forgiveness from herself. Now she is free.

“……I'm on my way / Just set me free / Home sweet home”

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Ⅱ. MYSTERY

I had so many doubts in my mind, so I wanted to go out and figure it out. I stood on the second floor and looked down. a man with his back to me was sitting on the couch, I thought this must be my father. I lowered my voice to call him, but when he turned around, I felt a chill again because this man wasn't my real father either!

"What's wrong, kid?"

I struggled to put on an ugly smile, "Nothing, Dad, I just wanted to see what you were doing."

When I got back to my room, I immediately locked the door and collapsed on the floor. The home had become a place of danger, no longer the warm and happy haven it had been. After a few moments of stagnation, I suddenly thought of my boyfriend Thomas, who visited me last week, and we had dinner together at home. Thomas didn't notice anything unusual about my parents, which means my real parents were in the house last week. I hurriedly picked up my phone and called Thomas and told him everything.

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"I'll be right there." Thomas said.

Suddenly a knock sounded, and the strange man reminded me to take my medicine. My heartbeat was faster once again. The man saw me hesitate to open the door and began to turn the handle. I was determined not to open the door no matter what, unless Thomas came. After a few moments, there was no sound outside the door, I walked nervously to the door and climbed down to see through the crack if the man had left. Just then, my eyes met the strange man's and I saw him staring dead at me. At that moment my whole body's blood seemed to flow backward. I forced myself to calm down, pretended to be invisible, and groped on the floor.

"Where is my phone? I heard it dropped near here."

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When he heard what I said, he slowly left. The hands clutching the phone shook uncontrollably. I called Thomas again and asked him when he would arrive.

"Babe, I caught a traffic jam and may not be able to get through for a short time, I've called the police, but the house is in a remote location, and it may take a while for the police to get there. Although I don't know exactly what's going on, the most important thing right now is to keep yourself safe and stay on the phone with me."

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But I realized that my phone was about to turn off. Since I've been blind, I rarely use my phone, so I don't charge it often, now it's down to the last ten percent of its battery. I'm worried that I won't be able to wait for the police to arrive, I need to make sure my phone is in a fully charged state. I had to go downstairs and get the charger. I clenched my fist and quickly went downstairs. I was just about to turn my head upstairs, but I was confronted by the expressionless woman.

"Honey, I just noticed that you're walking so much faster than before. Are you able to see now?"

Fear spread from the heart to the whole body instantly, and my clenched fist fingers became white because of blood impassability.

"After living here for so long, I've become familiar with the environment, so that I can walk fast." I said. Pretending to be relaxed.

"I thought you could see. Don't worry, give me the phone, Mommy will help you charge it." The woman acted like a good mother who loves her daughter very much, but I knew that it was all disguised by her.

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Ⅰ. SEE

Because of a sudden accident, I became blind.

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To take better care of me, my parents moved with me to a house in the suburbs. During the time that I was blind, my parents stayed with me unfailingly. Every morning my mom would bring me a warm breakfast and medicine. To try to keep me safe, my dad wrapped thick tape around every possible hard corner of the house in case I bumped into it. There were very few people living in the suburbs and very few cars, but despite this, my parents wouldn't let me go out on my own. They did their best to look after me. I loved my parents, and I felt very happy to have such a loving family, until one day I suddenly regained my sight, this peaceful and beautiful life was shattered.

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Just yesterday, I miraculously regained my sight. I was just about to share the good news with my parents when I suddenly found a crumpled paper ball next to my bed. I opened the paper ball and only one short sentence caught my eye: Don't tell them you can see! The handwriting was scrawled as if someone had written it in a hurry. There was no one else in the house but my parents, so it was obvious that the "they" referred to my parents. While I was thinking about who had left the paper ball, a knock sounded.

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"Honey, it's time for breakfast." Mother's voice came out of the door.

I threw the paper ball into the garbage can without thinking, and then I opened the door. But when I saw my mother behind the door, my heart stopped for a moment. I saw a strange woman standing in the doorway with a bowl, looking at me with a smile, but it gave me the creeps.

It's not my mother!

The woman in front of me was wearing bright red lipstick and had a weird smile. But the strange thing was that from her mouth came the same voice as my mother's! I just wanted to ask her who she was, but suddenly remembered the words on the paper ball, so I could only try to maintain my expression and pretend not to notice anything. But out of fear and shock, I couldn't help but take a step backward.

"What's wrong honey, aren't you feeling well?" The woman looked worried and held me up.

I fumbled to sit on the bed, "I'm fine, I just got up sharply and got a little dizzy."

The woman nodded and left the room after watching me eat both my breakfast and my medicine. My back was already wet with cold sweat, where was my real mother? And who was this strange woman?

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Home sweet home, Set me free.

“……Just set me free / Home sweet home”

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