[Warning: Upsetting content. Violence. Readers have been warned.]
"I—I didn't—" Shailene wanted to refute it, but Diamond didn't give her a chance to do so.
"But because you're in a bad mood, you told him that his life is worth nothing, and no amount of therapy will help. So he should just kill himself, right?" Diamond said ruthlessly. "He was a kid suffering from depression and self-esteem issues. He got bullied badly, and his parents sent him to your Dad's hospital where you worked after you graduated."
"Since he suffered from extremely low self-esteem, he kept on pitying himself until you got annoyed by him," Diamond said. "Realizing that he will not get better anytime soon, you started getting annoyed by his constant visit. No matter what you did, his depression never got better, and he kept his pity party."
"Then, that day… maybe you haven't had your morning coffee, or maybe you woke up at the wrong side of the bed, but you said a heartless— no, many heartless comments to him when he was doing his therapy session with you," Diamond said. The image of Derik inside her head only got Diamond angrier about what Shailene did to that poor boy.
Shailene kept on shaking her head. She knew it was all true. It was her who killed that teenage boy with her sharp mouth. But she still wanted to forget it. She wanted to act like she did nothing wrong!
"Well, since you keep shaking your head like an idiot, then I will let you hear something I recover from that boy. This is his last voice recording before he commited suicide, just like what my brother Derik did."
Diamond fished out the phone from her blazer pocket and quickly found the voice recording of a fourteen-year-old boy. It was stored inside a small memory card inside the document that the agent gave to Diamond before, just to make sure that Diamond got everything ready for this big reveal.
—Recording—
Hello, this is Erik. If you— I mean, Mom and Dad are listening to this recording right now, that means I'm dead.
I know I'm not a good son, and I don't know if my death will affect you two. I hope you can forgive and forget about me. I have been nothing but a failure for you two.
I want you to know that it's not your fault. It's my fault for being a failure. I've been trying my best not to be a burden and to be confident, but no matter how hard I try, I just know that I'm not good enough for this world.
But if you want to blame someone else for this, you can blame my psychologist, Miss Shailene Walsh.
She told me yesterday that I'm a worthless piece of shit because I keep coming to her. She told me I should just end myself because I kept pitying my life.
She also told me that she got bored treating me because there is no use in helping someone who's just born sick, and I'm only a burden to everyone around me.
She's usually not mean to me, but maybe she's just having a bad day.
No, she's right. She's definitely right about this.
? There is no use in helping a person who is born sick like me. In the end, I will only be a burden to everyone, just like what she said.
So this is my last message to my family. I hope you two can forget me.
Goodbye.
—Recording End—
Diamond waved her phone before Shailene's eyes to taunt her, "Do you remember everything now? I got this recording from one and only Erik's parents. They told me that the court can't give them justice because of your father's connection, you bribed the judge and buried this case until nobody knows about this, and you can walk out without any guilt or shame."
"Really, how evil can you be, Shailene Walsh. You pushed a kid to end his own life, then tried to cover it up because you don't want your reputation and career to get ruined. What a scum," Diamond scoffed. "Now I understand why you overreacted when I told the story of my deceased brother. It's because you have the same sin as Carter Fallingham."
"You may not know about Carter personally, but damn, you're basically the female version of him, hahahahaha!" Diamond laughed heartily for a while before her laugh suddenly stopped abruptly. Her gaze got colder, and her lips thinned. "And I hate everyone who acts just like Carter Fallingham. It makes me want to kill them just like my father did to that bastard."
"No!" Shailene started shaking her head like a madwoman. The image of herself getting shot repeatedly because of what she did was utterly terrifying. "NO! NO! I'M NOT EVIL! I DIDN'T KILL THAT KID! HE KILLED HIMSELF!" Shailene yelled as she didn't want to die.
Diamond crouched in front of Shailene until they were at the same eye level, then she put her finger gun on Shailene's chin, "I could kill you with one shot from this spot. I guarantee that your head will explode with your brains bursting out like a horrible pinata."
"Or do you want me to shoot you in here?" Diamond moved his finger gun to the spot between Shailene's eyebrows, then she scoffed, "Heheh, it doesn't matter, in the end, you will die a gruesome death, and you will probably meet with Carter Fallingham in hell. You two can get to know each other, and maybe you can date him in hell!"
Shailene imagined all the gruesome stuff that Diamond would do to her, and her stomach turned out of fear and disgust.
"Urp— uupp— URK!" Shailene retched a few times, and Diamond quickly retreated by getting up and taking a step back. She watched as Shailene puked her guts on the floor.
Diamond grinned in satisfaction. Watching someone who acted like Carter Fallingham puke her guts out of fear was amusing and satisfying.
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