"Charlie! No, don't go!" She clung to me. "I'm frightened!" The role I had always wanted to play—the big brother.
At that moment, I sensed that Rose, who had been sitting in the corner quietly, was staring at us.
Something in her face had changed. Her eyes were wide, and she leaned forward on the edge of her seat.
All I could think of was a hawk ready to swoop down.
I pushed Norma away from me, but before I could say anything, Rose was on her feet.
She had taken the kitchen knife from the table and was pointing at me.
"What are you doing to her? Get away from her! I told you what I'd do to you if I ever caught you touching your sister again!"
"Dirty mind! You don't belong with normal people!"
We both jumped back, and for some insane reason, I felt guilty, as if I had been caught doing something wrong, and I knew Norma felt the same way.
It was as if my mother's accusation had made it true, that we were doing something obscene.
Norma screamed at her: "Mother! Put down that knife!"
Seeing Rose standing there with the knife brought back the picture of that night she had forced Matt to take me away.
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