- 15 hours ago
"El rojo significaba mentira. El verde significaba verdad." Esa era la única regla en nuestra casa. Mamá confiaba más en la pulsera Verity de mi muñeca que en mí. Así que cuando me desplomé agonizando en Nochevieja, la pulsera parpadeó en rojo. No llamó al 911. Se rio de mi ""actuación"" y me encerró con llave en mi cuarto mientras los fuegos artificiales estallaban afuera. Pasaron tres días de silencio. Mamá finalmente quitó el seguro de la puerta, esperando una disculpa. Creía que me estaba dando una lección. No sabía que estaba abriendo la puerta a una pesadilla que jamás podría deshacerse.
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00My mother called me a liar from the day I was born.
00:03Not because he actually lied.
00:05But because of this on my wrist, the band's mom was really obsessed with parenting based
00:11in science.
00:12So when my twin sister Emma and I were born, she tied these bands on us.
00:17The green light means truth.
00:19The red light means you are manipulating reality.
00:22Emma's evergreen gang could literally cut up Mom's designer dress and blame it on the cat.
00:27And that small device would shine like a Christmas tree.
00:32I wouldn't say, I thought the green light.
00:35I would say, "Mom, I'm hungry and I get instant red light punishment."
00:42And Mom's punishment wasn't gentle.
00:45There is no food locked in my room.
00:48Digital blackout, synthesizer...
00:50After 10 years of this, I started to believe it too.
00:53Maybe I really was born wrong.
00:57On New Year's Eve, everything changed.
01:11On New Year's Eve, everything changed.
01:13Mom was getting ready to take Emma to see the ball drop in Times Square.
01:17And that's when the pain hits.
01:19Like a knife twisting in my guts.
01:22I collapsed to the floor.
01:24My skeletal frame curls in on itself.
01:27Mom, please.
01:29Hurts.
01:30Lavender shone in red.
01:32She looked at me with disgust in her eyes.
01:35Nice try.
01:36She's already pretending to be sick to ruin our night.
01:38Pathological.
01:40He took Emma's hand and headed around the corner.
01:43I wanted to scream.
01:45But part of me thought that maybe she was right.
01:48Lavender is red, so I must be lying.
01:51I shouldn't really be suffering.
01:54I'm sorry, Mom.
01:55I'm not going to lie.
01:56No more.
01:56But the pain worsened.
01:59Much worse.
02:04The door handle swung.
02:06For a second I thought.
02:08She's coming back.
02:09She is a doctor.
02:10He'll know something is wrong.
02:12Hurry up.
02:12The fireworks are starting.
02:15Emma is waiting.
02:16Please, something is seriously wrong.
02:18I feel like I'm dying.
02:21She looked at my wrist.
02:22The red light was flashing like crazy.
02:25He bent down.
02:26It grazed my chin.
02:27He forced me to do it.
02:28With her.
02:29How long are you going to keep this up?
02:31You can't be honest.
02:33Stay here and think about what you have done.
02:35Honey, we should at least leave him some food.
02:38Mom got up.
02:40Meal.
02:41He has a stash of snacks that he bought with stolen money.
02:43He will not die of hunger.
02:44I would catch his hands as if he were dirty.
02:46Close the door when that band turns green.
02:49We'll talk.
02:50But what?
02:53Gentle parenting is the reason why it's like that.
02:56Look at Emma.
02:57His band is always green.
02:59Estella is just a compulsive liar.
03:01She needs discipline.
03:03But my closet was empty.
03:05Emma stole that money.
03:06Emma ate those sandwiches.
03:09I tried to defend myself once.
03:11I didn't take it either.
03:13Red light.
03:14Three days locked up with nothing but bread and water.
03:18Emma peeked out the door.
03:20He made a face at me.
03:21Kisses.
03:22Let's watch the beautiful fireworks.
03:25The door was closed.
03:27The once silent house.
03:29Just me.
03:31He.
03:32The pain was unbearable.
03:34But I kept thinking.
03:36Mom is right.
03:38The machine doesn't lie.
03:39The band is pink so I must be lying.
03:43I am not suffering.
03:45I am not suffering.
03:47I am not suffering.
03:50I crawled to my desk.
03:52I had to write.
03:53That was the rule.
03:54If the band glowed red, I had to write a thousand-word apology essay or Mom would never tell me.
04:00would let go.
04:01I am a liar.
04:03I opened the pages of my diary and the pages of apologies I had written over the years.
04:08But this time I wanted to write the truth.
04:12My vision was blurry.
04:14I could barely see.
04:15My hand was trembling as I wrote.
04:18Mom, I really love you.
04:21It really hurts.
04:22Why don't you believe me?
04:25Please, believe me just once.
04:28The moment I finished the last word, the pain disappeared.
04:33I left and felt light.
04:35Weightless.
04:37I looked down.
04:38It was floating.
04:40And there, slumped on the desk, was my body.
04:44Still.
04:46The Verity band still flashes red on the wrist of a dead girl.
04:50Oh, I'm dead.
04:53I heard laughter.
04:54Mom, Dad, come in through the front door.
04:58Tonight's fireworks were incredible, especially that smiling face like our Emma.
05:05Mom's voice was very warm.
05:07I had never heard her sound like that when she talked about me.
05:11I wanted to help them take off their coats.
05:13That's what I always did.
05:15Mother.
05:16I went over to hug her.
05:18My arms passed through her body, like the wind.
05:22She shuddered.
05:24Why is it so cold here?
05:25The heat is off.
05:27I stood there, staring at my transparent hands.
05:30True, the dead cannot hug the living.
05:34We should check on Estella.
05:35Dad said casually.
05:37She hasn't eaten.
05:38If she finds me dead, will she be sad?
05:41Will he regret it?
05:52Even if I do something, I think I'll take you to bed.
05:56Estella, you are 10 years old, not 5.
05:59I yelled at Mom from only two feet away.
06:03I'm not playing around.
06:04I'm dead.
06:05Look at me, touch me.
06:06I'm freezing.
06:08Emma walked past her.
06:10She raised her wrist with that small, smug smile.
06:15Look, the green star in my bathroom is still red.
06:19She's lying even in her dreams.
06:22Mom, I kicked her in the head.
06:23That's my good girl.
06:25Ignore the liar, let him stay there.
06:28Maybe I'll learn to be honest.
06:30Dad peeked out.
06:31Should we at least put her to bed?
06:33It's freezing, put her in bed.
06:35The parenting expert says that cold treatment is the answer.
06:39Look at that red light, it's still in full challenge mode.
06:42Come on, we have to visit Grandma tomorrow.
06:45The door closed again.
06:46I floated next to my corpse, staring at that single point of red light in the darkness.
06:52Mom, if you had come closer, if you had touched my hand.
06:57You knew it was freezing, but you didn't.
07:01That night a rat came out of my empty closet.
07:04I used to scream whenever I saw rats, but now I just floated along the ceiling, watching them scurry around me
07:10corpse.
07:11It bit my toe.
07:13Okay, you can't feel it anymore.
07:16It will end soon.
07:18The next morning sunlight streamed in through the window.
07:22No heat reached my body.
07:24In the kitchen I could hear Mom making breakfast.
07:27The smell of bacon and egg drifted under my port.
07:30My favorite.
07:32But Mom always said that liars don't deserve meat.
07:35So they just gave me steamed broccoli.
07:37She was gripping the shoulders of the road tighter on purpose, trying to tempt me.
07:43Trying to make me give in and apologize for things I never did.
07:47In the old days, I may have given in, but I don't need food anymore.
07:55Estella has not yet left.
07:57Has Estella not yet come out?
07:59Dad asked, reading his newspaper.
08:02She is so stubborn.
08:03He can eat or not, I don't care.
08:05Emma came to my door and made a big show of sniffing the air.
08:10Then she screamed dramatically.
08:12Mama Estella's room smells disgusting.
08:15Did he put it in?
08:17Mom burst in, banging on the door.
08:19Estella, are you an animal?
08:21The bathroom is right.
08:23Oh, seriously, you went to my apartment just to annoy me?
08:27I remembered that I was six years old.
08:29I had food poisoning.
08:31I couldn't get to the bathroom in time.
08:33I soiled my pants.
08:34Mom didn't help me clean.
08:36He made me stand in the yard, pointed at me, and told the neighbors.
08:40Look at this.
08:41She's a disaster, she can't even use the bathroom by herself.
08:45Now, she thought he was dirty again.
08:47Leave her alone.
08:48"Mom," she said, waving her hand as if she were swatting a fly.
08:51Let her sit in her own stench.
08:54But Dad got up frowning.
08:56That smells really bad.
08:58I should check it, it could be a dead mouse or something.
09:01Dad, please open the door.
09:03I'm here.
09:05I frantically waved my transparent arms.
09:08Dad's hand touched the doorknob.
09:10Her phone was ringing.
09:11Dad's face turned pale.
09:14What the server failed at.
09:16Okay, okay.
09:17I'm on my way, darling.
09:18There's an emergency at work.
09:20I'll be gone for a few days.
09:22Wait, what about Estella?
09:24I was already outside.
09:26If that call had come one second later, they would have found me.
09:30Perhaps then he wouldn't have done it alone.
09:34That afternoon, Mom took Emma shopping.
09:36The house was empty, except for my corpse.
09:39When they returned that night, laden with fine lobster and gifts,
09:43The smell had worsened.
09:45Mom gagged herself the moment he came in.
09:48Estella, you're trying to turn this place into a garbage dump.
09:51He didn't even open my door.
09:53He grabbed some tape and sealed the space on the inside.
09:56You want to be disgusting, good stew.
09:59Don't stink up my house.
10:01She clapped her hands together in satisfaction.
10:05Then he went to steam the lobster.
10:07I stared at that sealed door.
10:09My last glimmer of hope was smothered under that tape.
10:13By the third day, not even the adhesive tape could contain the smell.
10:17Mom was arranging fresh flowers, trying to cover it up.
10:20But the stench of death is unmistakable.
10:24Sweet rotten oil.
10:27She cut a rose stem that was too strong.
10:30A thorn pierced his hand.
10:32She clicked her finger.
10:33Does it splinter?
10:34She grabbed a rolling pin from the kitchen and broke into my room.
10:38I'm done with you, you disgusting little brat.
10:41It's time you learned what real pain feels like.
10:45Don't come in, Mom, please.
10:47I'm devastated.
10:48You will be afraid.
10:51Even though she never loved me.
10:53I didn't want her to see me like that.
10:55But she tore the tape.
10:57He jammed the spare key in the lock.
11:00Van, the door opened.
11:04The smell hit her like a wall; she stumbled backward, dry and agitated.
11:09Estilla, what are you doing?
11:12The smell hit her like a wall.
11:15She stepped back, flustered.
11:18Estilla, what are you doing?
11:20Mother?
11:22He screamed in a human sound.
11:24A raw, guttural shriek tore at his throat.
11:28He stumbled backwards.
11:29It crashed into the bookshelf.
11:31A bastard turned around, but she didn't seem to feel the pain.
11:35She just stared at me with her eyes wide open, without blinking.
11:39No, no, no, no.
11:40This is makeup, special effects.
11:42Splint, get up.
11:44I'm not angry anymore.
11:45Stop scaring me.
11:47Her hand reached out, trembling, to touch my arm.
11:50The moment his skin came into contact with my corpse,
11:53He recoiled as if he had been burned.
11:55The cold was all too real.
11:58Mrs. Lisa next door heard a scream.
12:03When he saw what was in my room,
12:05He turned around in the hallway in a matter of minutes.
12:07The sirens watch for a doctor who will win.
12:11They lifted the crime scene cameras that were shining on my body.
12:15Mom sat on the sofa, with an officer's hand on her shoulder.
12:19He was babbling, he was.
12:21Falsification.
12:22She always lies.
12:23The band was red.
12:25Machines don't lie.
12:27I was just showing him.
12:28He was doing it for his own good.
12:30No one answered.
12:32Everyone looked at her as if she were a monster.
12:34The medical examiner crouched down next to my body.
12:38He murmured in a low voice.
12:40Severe malnutrition.
12:41Organ failure.
12:42This child was hungry for at least a month.
12:45I carefully remove the band for real.
12:48But that's how it was.
12:50Confused power.
12:51He cursed; he had to use tools to remove it.
12:55Even in death, my soul was born anew.
13:04A policeman collected my diary.
13:06Put on your gloves, start reading.
13:09Mom's eyes were fixed on that book.
13:11Suddenly, she lunged at him.
13:14That is his confession.
13:15She admits that she lied.
13:17Look, she wrote it herself.
13:19The officer pushed her back.
13:20He put the diary in an evidence bag.
13:23We will determine that it is true.
13:24That's when Dad came home.
13:27He saw the black body bag being carried on a stretcher.
13:30I saw the long zipper that sealed my entire life.
13:34Her legs gave way.
13:36It collapsed, it got wet.
13:39Emma was nearby, sobbing in confusion.
13:42He pointed to the blood-stained band on the test table.
13:47Why is this band already black?
13:49Mine's still green, you see?
13:51She raised her wrist.
13:53The green light blinked happily.
13:55It was grotesque.
13:57The police began questioning Mom in the living room.
14:00She grabbed the real band from the table as if it were a life raft.
14:04Try it, that band proves he was lying.
14:07The red light means lie.
14:09Never abuse it.
14:11The machine told me that I was just training it.
14:13The officer looked at her as if she had lost her mind.
14:17Ma'am, the victim shows signs of extreme malnutrition.
14:21That's the discipline that's teaching her to be honest.
14:25Mom was screaming now.
14:27Then she did something crazy.
14:30You don't believe me, that's fine.
14:31I'll wear it, I'm not lying.
14:33Look, it will be green.
14:36She grabbed the band, still stained with my blood and pieces of skin, and stuck it on her own wrist.
14:43Click here.
14:45He closed the rubber band pressed against his sticky skin.
14:50Cold, she took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
14:55He needed to prove his innocence.
14:57He needed to prove that his upbringing was correct.
15:00She raised her wrist.
15:02Wild eyes.
15:03Look, I'm Rachel.
15:05I am Estella's mother.
15:07That is an absolute fact.
15:09The truth.
15:10The red light exploded bright and violent like a fresh wound opening up.
15:15Mom's confident expression shattered.
15:20She smashed the band like it was a broken television.
15:23No, I told the truth.
15:25I'm Rachel.
15:26She.
15:29He started talking faster.
15:30Panic in her voice.
15:32It's broken, the examiner broke it.
15:34Let me try again.
15:36I never abused her.
15:38I did it for his own good.
15:40I love her.
15:41The pink light blinked faster and suddenly she remembered.
15:45Me, 10 years old, receiving the maximum punishment curled up on the floor, biting my lip
15:51so as not to shout.
15:54Is this what it felt like?
15:56Mom lost him completely.
15:59She started screaming at the band, spitting all over the place.
16:02Why is it red?
16:04I'm telling the truth.
16:06Go green, you piece of trash.
16:07You're incriminating me.
16:09But the red light kept flashing as if it were mocking her.
16:14You're a liar.
16:15You're a liar.
16:16You're a liar.
16:18Enough!
16:19A technology officer stepped forward.
16:21I'd had enough of this circus.
16:23For.
16:24That device is not a lie detector.
16:26He picked up the user manual they had found during the search.
16:29He slammed it against the coffee table.
16:31This is a basic biometric monitor.
16:34It measures skin conductivity in relation to heart rate.
16:36When you are nervous or scared with pain, your heart rate increases, the light turns red.
16:41That's all.
16:42He walked towards Mom, who was still on the ground, and his voice turned cold.
16:46Think of your daughter, ruptured appendix, organ failure.
16:50The pain must have been unbearable.
16:53Her heart was racing, she was terrified.
16:56And what did you see, a red light to punish her further?
16:59That scared her the most.
17:02That made his heart beat faster.
17:05Which made the light turn redder.
17:07You turned her cries for help into a torture device that you deprived your daughter of.
17:12Death.
17:12The world of boom mom collapsed.
17:15She sat there staring at the flashing red band on her wrist and finally understood, after ten years, that every light
17:21It wasn't red because she was lying.
17:26It was because I was afraid.
17:28Fear of his anger.
17:30Fear of being misunderstood.
17:32He was afraid to eat foods he was allergic to.
17:35I was suffering.
17:37Pain that made my heart race and sweat pour down my face.
17:41He was desperate, desperate for a hug.
17:43So that she can hold me the way she held Emma.
17:46Every sign from my frightened heart.
17:50She interpreted it as proof of my lies.
17:53No.
17:54Mom suddenly screamed.
17:55He tore the band apart.
17:56Hold on tight.
17:57Take it off, take it off.
17:58It's red.
17:59I am not a liar.
18:00I am not.
18:01But the clasp was stuck because of its violent light.
18:04He wouldn't move.
18:05I can't get it off.
18:07Estella, take it back.
18:09I'm sorry.
18:10It's all my fault.
18:11This little pain and she was breaking down.
18:15Mother.
18:16I suffered for ten years.
18:18The police needed evidence for the charges, and you had better.
18:21So they opened my diary in front of my parents.
18:24On February 14th, sunny mom put celery on my plate.
18:28I'm allergic.
18:30My throat is swollen.
18:31I can't breathe.
18:32I said I couldn't eat it, but because I was afraid of making her angry, my heart raced.
18:38The mother of the red light said she was demanding, lying.
18:41He made me eat the whole plate.
18:44That night I bled.
18:46My throat felt like it was on fire.
18:49Mom saw it and said I had escaped from the tomato juice I was pretending to drink.
18:53He punished me for ten more minutes.
18:55Mom's hand flew towards her mouth.
18:57He was trembling violently.
18:59She remembered that night.
19:01The officer turned the page.
19:03First Children's Day of June.
19:06Emma cut Mom's dress.
19:08Emma's heart rate is always a slow green light.
19:12I tried to explain, but I was afraid of being beaten up.
19:14So my heart started racing.
19:16Red light.
19:18Dad couldn't stand it anymore.
19:19This man, who had been invisible for ten years, who always kept to himself, broke down.
19:26Dad couldn't stand it anymore.
19:29This man, who had been invisible for ten years, who always kept to himself, broke down.
19:35He lunged at Mom and slapped her in the face.
19:39Monster, what did you do to your daughter?
19:41You treated her like an animal.
19:46Mom fell to the ground, blood at the corner of her mouth.
19:49But she did not defend herself.
19:51She didn't cry, she just stared into space, murmuring.
19:55It's not my fault.
19:57It's not my fault.
19:59Then his eyes fell on Emma, huddled in the corner.
20:02It's her, it's Emma.
20:04Emma's band was always green.
20:07Emma was the good one.
20:08If it weren't for that green light that makes me trust it, I wouldn't have believed in the light so much.
20:13red.
20:14It's Emma's fault.
20:15All eyes turned to Emma.
20:17That little princess we all protected.
20:20The policeman approached.
20:22Gently remove the green Verity band from your wrist.
20:25He took out a screwdriver and opened it right there.
20:29The plastic that will divide.
20:32Inside, no sensors, no chips, no heart rate monitor.
20:37Just two cheap LED lights and a watch battery.
20:41The circuit was wired with a green light.
20:45That's all.
20:46This is a $2 toy.
20:48Your youngest daughter's band was ready to be forever green.
20:52It doesn't matter what he said, did, or lied about.
20:56Green Brigade.
20:57The so-called science-based parenting was a joke.
21:02A sick and biased joke.
21:05I laughed, I laughed until I cried.
21:08It turns out that ghosts can cry too.
21:11The officer turned to the last page of the diary.
21:14Her voice broke.
21:17The lyrics were a mess.
21:19Clearly written as he was dying.
21:22Mom, if I die, will the band stop shining red?
21:25Or what if it turns green?
21:28Will you hug me then?
21:30I'm not lying, my stomach hurts a lot.
21:34Like knives.
21:37Next life, please don't make me use the band, please.
21:40Mom looked at the broken pieces of plastic on the table.
21:44That green light that I trusted without a doubt.
21:48A piece of cheap garbage.
21:51Mom burst out laughing.
21:53Her voice cracked with every sound.
21:55But it was someone's laughter breaking.
21:59Worse than crying.
22:01False, all false.
22:02I killed my honest daughter.
22:05And I worshipped a liar.
22:07This time he had truly lost his mind.
22:12My death became front-page news.
22:15Mrs. Lisa, the neighborhood gossip, posted everything online.
22:19The girls in the title starved to death because of a fake science gang.
22:24She described my corpse in detail.
22:27The band merged with rotten meat.
22:30The internet exploded.
22:32Monster killer.
22:33She doesn't deserve to be a mother.
22:37The comets arrived like an avalanche.
22:41Someone killed Mom.
22:43Our address was leaked.
22:45People threw red paint on our door.
22:47He wrote death in enormous letters.
22:50Dad was arrested for negligence.
22:52Lack of protection.
22:55He wasn't there when I died, so he went out of the light.
22:58But his company fired him immediately to avoid the public relations nightmare.
23:03Our family went bankrupt.
23:06He sold the house, the car, everything to pay the legal fees.
23:11Dad couldn't stand living with that psychopath anymore.
23:14He took the little money Emma had left and disappeared.
23:19Emma was a bad seed, that's for sure.
23:21But she was still his blood.
23:24Before leaving, Emma tried to take her green armband.
23:28Dad stepped on it.
23:29Why on earth would you want that piece of trash?
23:31Emma cried as he dragged her away.
23:34Mom was released on bail.
23:36The psychological evaluation said that he had severe post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis.
23:41They left her alone in that rented apartment.
23:43The one who still smelled of death, her mental state deteriorated rapidly.
23:50He started talking to me as if I were still there.
23:52And she refused to remove the red light band to punish herself.
23:57She had added a shock device to it.
23:59One that gave a shudder the moment the light flashed red.
24:03He said that the minor collisions were the only thing that relieved his guilt.
24:07She would cook a whole table's worth of food.
24:10Then he would talk to empty air.
24:12He was picking up a piece of meat.
24:13His hands were trembling.
24:15The band shone red.
24:16I was anxious.
24:19She smiled, but her eyes were empty.
24:22Mom's heart races.
24:24Mom's liars don't deserve food.
24:28I picked up a remote control.
24:30One that had been reprogrammed to activate the shock on his bracelet.
24:33And she surprised herself.
24:36It hurts, it hurts.
24:38Is this what Estella felt?
24:40I'm sorry.
24:42Mom started recreating my diary entries.
24:45I couldn't eat celery because of my allergy.
24:48So he forced himself to eat spoiled food until he vomited blood and then swallowed it again.
24:55He was locked in isolation.
24:57So he locked himself in the old lights of my room.
25:00And she bowed down to my picture until her forehead bled over and over again.
25:07Blood on the floor.
25:09Late at night I would see the red glow of lavender reflected on the wall.
25:14To her, it seemed as if my bloodied eyes were looking at her.
25:17She scribbled in a red pen on the back of my diary.
25:21I'm sorry I made a mistake.
25:23Red light means pain.
25:25The red light means love.
25:27Please come back and say it hurts one more time.
25:30I will save you, I promise.
25:33Too bad, I'm dead.
25:35The dead cannot ask for help.
25:38Finally, the state intervened.
25:40Mom's self-esteem became so extreme that she almost committed suicide.
25:45They promised it to her.
25:47He ended up in a psychiatric center.
25:50She was the strangest patient there.
25:53I had found a red plastic ring somewhere
25:55and she wore it around her neck like a necklace.
25:58Your home band.
26:00If anyone tried to remove it,
26:02She would bite them like a rabid dog.
26:05Don't touch my light.
26:07Estella is watching.
26:08She'll get angry if you take it.
26:10She developed a Pablovian response.
26:13Grachey, lunchtime.
26:15Mom was touching her neck.
26:16Then he would start convulsing and screaming.
26:19Red light, red light.
26:21Don't punish me.
26:22I'll eat, I'll eat.
26:23Even if the food was boiling,
26:26He swallowed it, burning his esophagus.
26:28I wouldn't spit it out.
26:31She was reliving my last moments,
26:34living my hell on repeat.
26:37Years later, Emma grew up.
26:39Without proper guidance and with a trail of infamy in her wake,
26:43He ended up at the bottom of society.
26:45When he ran out of money, he remembered.
26:48Mom is still in that facility.
26:50She appeared one day.
26:52Not for love.
26:53For cash.
27:01Hey, crazy girl.
27:03Dad is dead.
27:04Give me your hidden hiding place.
27:07Disgusting.
27:08Just like your dead isa.
27:10If you don't give me money,
27:11I'll pull your tubes and send you to join her.
27:15For a moment,
27:16Mom's cloudy eyes cleared up.
27:19He looked at Emma and suddenly remembered.
27:21That band that's always a green toy.
27:25That decade of disappointment.
27:28It was you.
27:29Mom's voice was like gravel.
27:32You lied, you are the fake green light that killed Estella.
27:35Give it back, give it back.
27:40The last vestige of maternal love turned into revenge.
27:45Mom lunged forward and grabbed Emma by the throat.
27:48She dies, and you should have died, not her.
27:51You.
27:52Help Emma hit herself,
27:54But he could not break free from the control of a crazy woman.
27:57The orderers rushed to sedate Mom.
28:01He moved her away.
28:02Emma left the room, terrified.
28:04They're all crazy.
28:07She ran towards the exit.
28:11A truck crashed into it.
28:13She barely survived.
28:16Both legs were shattered beyond repair.
28:18Wheelchair for life.
28:20A total shipwreck.
28:21Meanwhile, Mom was tied to a bed,
28:24looking at the ceiling.
28:26Tears flowing.
28:27In his dreams, he finally saw me.
28:31I was ten years old again without a band.
28:33White dress smiling.
28:36Mom caught up with me, crying with joy.
28:40Stellar, but his hands sparked with electricity.
28:44The moment he touched me, I burst into flames.
28:48Turn it to ash.
28:50I'm not out of control screaming.
28:52Heart rate across the ceiling.
28:55If she had been wearing that band,
28:57It would have been blood red, eternal torment.
29:01I stood there staring into space.
29:04Mom at the facility.
29:06Emma in a wheelchair, begging in the streets.
29:10Dad, drunk and dead somewhere.
29:13I felt it.
29:15Nothing.
29:16There is no satisfaction.
29:18Just a quiet dead floor.
29:21There was an old dog next to me.
29:23Friend, my childhood pet.
29:26Mom kicked him out years ago.
29:28He was waiting for me at the border.
29:31Woody stroked my leg and barked twice.
29:33As if to say, let's go.
29:36Don't look back.
29:38Yes, it's time to go.
29:41This life was too bitter.
29:43Nothing worth clinging to.
29:46I floated to Mom's hospital room for the last time.
29:49It looked old-fashioned.
29:51Completely white hair.
29:53Fragile as paper.
29:55She felt something.
29:57His clouded eyes focused on a point in the air.
30:01Right where I was.
30:03Estella, it's you.
30:05His trembling hand reached for the void.
30:08Mom destroyed the band.
30:09I no longer believe in her.
30:12Please come back.
30:13I'll cook for you.
30:14No celery.
30:15I'll buy you new dresses, not Emma.
30:18Tears rolled down her face.
30:20I looked at the red marks on his neck from the homemade band.
30:25I sighed and extended my hand.
30:27My cold, ghostly finger touched her forehead.
30:31Sleep, Mom.
30:32In sleep, there is no pain.
30:35A breeze blew through the room.
30:38The old diary on his nightstand opened to the last page.
30:42My last words.
30:44He stared intently at the ceiling, but below him, in shaky handwriting, were new lines.
30:51Written by Mom during a lucid moment.
30:53Next life, let me use the band.
30:56Let me be the liar.
30:58Punish me however you want.
31:00Just don't leave me.
31:02I stared at those words.
31:04I didn't feel anything too late.
31:07Repentance means nothing to the dead.
31:11Mom, I don't hate you anymore.
31:14But I don't love you either.
31:17Let's not see each other again.
31:19I turned around.
31:21Busy wagged her tail.
31:22In the distance appeared a door of light, the gateway to the next cycle.
31:29I looked at my wrist.
31:31The Phantom Truth Gang is still there.
31:35Even in spirit form.
31:37I grabbed it.
31:38It shattered into stardust.
31:41I felt weightless, free.
31:44There is no red light.
31:45No hunger.
31:47No lies.
31:48Only freedom.
31:50The good day arrived.
31:51A nurse opened the door.
31:53Rachel, it's time for your medication.
31:55There is no answer.
31:56She approached.
31:57Rachel's hand gripped the torn diary.
32:00A single tear crystallized in the corner of his eye on the heart monitor.
32:04The wavy line had become flat.
32:07Passing through the light was not violent.
32:09It wasn't turning.
32:10There was no chaos.
32:11Just heat.
32:13Like sinking into a spring stream.
32:15Even the lingering pain in my soul, the phantom pains, began to fade away.
32:21Woody pressed my palm.
32:22His fur was no longer translucent.
32:24It was soft.
32:25Warm.
32:26Real.
32:27This was the living, breathing connection I had longed for as a child.
32:31Come on, kid.
32:33I held its paw and walked toward the shine.
32:35Behind me, the old life faded away like a worn photograph.
32:38Mom's last tear.
32:40The red glow of lavender.
32:42The blood on the pages of the diary.
32:44Everything blurred, dissolved.
32:46I didn't look back.
32:47That ten-year nightmare had finally ended.
32:51When I opened my eyes again.
32:53I was from Pepe.
32:55Wrapped in soft blankets.
32:57Someone was logging.
32:59A woman's voice.
33:00Soft, off-key, but full of love.
33:04His fingers brushed against my cheek.
33:06The scent of gardenias, not the sterile smell of my old mother's hospital, not the cold clinical distance.
33:14I blinked at her.
33:15She had kind eyes.
33:17A gentle smile.
33:19She smacked me as if I were made of glass.
33:22"Thank you, she's awake," he murmured.
33:25Honey, come quickly.
33:26Our Isa just blinked.
33:28A man appeared.
33:30Tall, a little awkward, but his face lit up when he saw me.
33:34He touched my small hand with one finger.
33:36His voice was deep.
33:39Kilda, hey Grace.
33:41I am your dad.
33:42Grace is not Tella.
33:44Weightless, chainless, lie-free, only Grace is tella.
33:49A name that meant something light, something precious.
33:54This house was small, but clean.
33:58Cozy cartoon stickers on the walls, plants on the balcony.
34:02Sunlight streams in through the windows, warming the floor.
34:06I realized it quickly.
34:08This family was nothing like the previous one.
34:39I was never forced to do anything.
34:42Thanks, what's up?
34:44Don't you like the lip?
34:46I couldn't speak, I just shook my head in loneliness.
34:50Dad also knelt down.
34:52He rubbed my back.
34:54Hey, that's fine.
34:56You don't have to eat it.
34:57You don't have to eat it.
34:57Can you tell us why?
34:59Were his eyes patient?
35:01Gentle.
35:02I finally drowned.
35:05My throat hurts.
35:06It makes me bleed.
35:08They didn't say that the machine doesn't lie.
35:11They didn't accuse me of faking it.
35:13They took me to the doctor immediately.
35:17It turns out I really am allergic to celery.
35:20It's gentle, but it can explode under stress.
35:23After that, celery never appeared in the house again.
35:27Mom even added it to her phone notes.
35:30Fat allergies, celery, mango.
35:33I checked every time I bought something.
35:35I lay in his arms that night smelling of gardenia and I realized.
35:40This is what it feels like to be believed.
35:42Love cannot be measured by a machine.
35:45It's about listening, even when the story sounds impossible.
35:48When he was four years old, the preschooler underwent a health examination.
35:52Blood draw, I saw the needle and lost it.
35:56Flashes of the band burning my wrist, flashes of hunger.
36:00I screamed, I clung to Dad's leg.
36:02The teacher sighed.
36:05Thanks, just a little bump.
36:07All the other children were brave.
36:09I couldn't stop trembling.
36:11Don't punish me, I'm not lying.
36:14Dad immediately picked me up, protecting me from the nurse.
36:18Sorry.
36:19He said firmly.
36:20She has trauma.
36:22We'll skip this for now and take her to a pediatric psychologist.
36:27On the way home, Dad didn't scold me for being weak.
36:31He just asked gently.
36:33Thank you, has anyone hurt you before?
36:36I buried my face in his shoulder, tears soaking his shirt.
36:41Mom's band!
36:44Red light!
36:45I couldn't explain it clearly, but he heard.
36:49He nodded.
36:50You've been through hell, haven't you?
36:53Alright.
36:54That's here now.
36:56No one will ever hurt you again.
36:59From then on, I was taken to a child therapist regularly.
37:03P.T. is severe, the doctor said.
37:07My parents never complained.
37:09They never made me feel like a burden.
37:11They played honesty games with me where I could say anything true or false.
37:16And they just listened.
37:17They gently guided me towards the truth.
37:21They bought me colorful bracelets, but they never forced me to wear them.
37:25These are just accessories.
37:27Thank you.
37:28Use them if you want.
37:29Remove them if you don't want to.
37:30We will love you no matter what.
37:32Little by little, I began to heal.
37:35I could say I don't like this without fear.
37:39I could say that I'm scared.
37:40I could say that I want that, I want that.
37:44I didn't have to worry about my heart racing as evidence of a lie.
37:49I started sharing my preschool stories with them.
37:53I cried when I didn't get a toy.
37:55I laughed when I received praise.
37:57He was finally just a child.
38:00A normal and beloved child.
38:02When I turned seven, I started primary school.
38:05She was a girl from my class, Annie and her family.
38:09She looked exactly like Emma, the same eyes.
38:12But her hair was shorter.
38:15And she was shy.
38:18Scared.
38:18The first time I saw her, my heart clenched (flashbacks).
38:22Emma's smug smile, the green light mocking me.
38:28I instinctively stepped back.
38:30Annie noticed that he was looking down.
38:32The voice was barely a whisper.
38:33I'm Annie.
38:36Do you want to be friends?
38:38His tone was as careful, as desperate to please as it usually was.
38:45I looked at her wrist.
38:46I was wearing a cheap green cartoon bracelet, my stomach was turned upside down.
38:51Later I discovered that Annie's mother was also strict.
38:55He demanded honesty.
38:56They locked her in her room without food when she made mistakes.
39:01One day Annie accidentally broke the teacher's cup.
39:04She was trembling, too scared to admit it.
39:07I saw her face, red eyes, barely holding back tears.
39:12I remembered myself at that desk writing.
39:15A liar a thousand times over.
39:18I approached her and took her hand.
39:21Annie is fine, accidents happen.
39:24Let's tell the teacher together.
39:26She won't get angry.
39:28Annie looked at me in surprise.
39:30But Mom says liars are bad children.
39:34Being honest is not about never making mistakes.
39:36It's about recognizing when you do it.
39:39And even if you tell the truth, you shouldn't be punished for it.
39:42If the teacher yells, I will protect you.
39:45If your mom screams, come to my house.
39:47My parents will help.
39:49I gave him the courage I never had.
39:52She confessed that the teacher forgave her.
39:54I told him to be more careful next time.
39:57From that day on, we were best friends.
40:01I brought Annie home to meet my parents.
40:03He saw how warm they were.
40:05Since they didn't yell, they didn't punish for small things.
40:10I told him.
40:11You don't have to make everyone happy.
40:14You can feel things.
40:19One day, Annie's mom came to pick her up from school.
40:23He saw us together and his face twisted.
40:27She grabbed Annie's hand.
40:29Did you mess up again?
40:31Is Grace covering for you?
40:32Annie immediately looked down.
40:35I stood in front of her.
40:37Ma'am, Annie didn't do anything wrong.
40:40She is a good girl.
40:43You shouldn't always assume the worst.
40:46She is afraid.
40:48The mother froze.
40:50He looked at me.
40:51Then, before Annie's tear-filled eyes,
40:55His expression softened.
40:58That night he called my mom.
41:00He thanked her.
41:01You are.
41:02Welcome.
41:03He said it had opened his eyes.
41:05Over time, Annie's mom became kinder.
41:09He began to hear the place screaming.
41:12And Annie?
41:13She blossomed.
41:15He had a great day.
41:16I trust that we learned to be happy.
41:18I saw her laugh freely one day and felt this warmth on my date.
41:25I didn't survive in my last life.
41:28I suffered alone in the darkness.
41:30But this time,
41:32I could save someone else.
41:34It could prevent another star from forming.
41:38Perhaps that is the gift my past life gave me.
41:41The ability to see pain.
41:44And to cure it.
41:47When I was 10 years old,
41:48My parents took me to visit my grandmother in the countryside.
41:51There was an old tree in his garden.
41:53Just like at my grandmother's house.
41:56I sat down beneath him,
41:58watching the sunlight filter through the soybeans.
42:00Budi sleeps next to me.
42:02Then I saw her.
42:04An old woman.
42:06White hair curled on a cane.
42:09Wearing a faded blue shirt.
42:10The moment I saw his face,
42:13I froze.
42:14She looked exactly like Rachel,
42:17my old mom.
42:19Grandma noticed me too.
42:21I walked slowly.
42:23His eyes were blurry,
42:24But there was something familiar about them.
42:26What's your name, girl?
42:28Grace Sterling.
42:30She repeated it softly.
42:32Thank you, that's a beautiful name.
42:34He came closer as if he wanted to touch my hair.
42:38Then he hesitated.
42:39Rachel gave up.
42:40As if he were afraid of disturbing something sacred.
42:43My mom came.
42:44He studied her.
42:46Mom, this is our daughter.
42:48Thank you.
42:49She was my grandmother in this life.
42:52During the following days,
42:54Grandma kept looking at me.
42:56His expression is illegible.
42:58One day, she brought me a plate of beef hamburger.
43:01Grace come, this used to be your favorite.
43:04I stared at the bowl.
43:06In my last life,
43:07I wrote it with my last breath.
43:09I want to eat Mom's beef burger.
43:12And here was Grandma saying those exact words.
43:16Tears blurred my vision.
43:19This was no longer a distant wish.
43:21It was real.
43:22Right in front of me.
43:24I took a piece, bit into it; tender, sweet.
43:29Perfect.
43:31Grandmother.
43:32He smiled a tired, guilty smile.
43:35That night, lying in bed with a friend curled up at my feet.
43:39I thought about Rachel's last words.
43:41In the next life, let me be the one punished.
43:44Just don't leave me.
43:46I thought of his last crybaby.
43:48The Torn Diary.
43:50Ones too.
43:52I no longer hated her.
43:54Hating someone is like being trapped in the past.
43:57Chewing on the pain forever.
43:59The happiness of this life had already washed away the bitterness.
44:03I simply felt sad.
44:06Grandma stayed for a month, then returned home before leaving.
44:10He took my hand.
44:13Live well.
44:14Be happy.
44:15Her voice was soft but heavy with meaning.
44:19I nodded.
44:20You too, Grandma.
44:22I watched her walk away.
44:24And I felt...
44:25Nothing.
44:27Without anger, without pain.
44:29The grudges from my past life were like fallen leaves carried by the wind.
44:35She was no longer Estella, the girl caught by a red light.
44:39I was Grace Sterling.
44:41Surrounded by love.
44:43Brothers.
44:44I graduated from elementary school at the age of 13.
44:47I have to go to the best high school in town.
44:50My parents took me to the beach to celebrate.
44:53I stood at the edge of the ocean, with the wind in my hair and the salt on my lips.
44:57I stretched out my arms, feeling the freedom.
45:00For a moment I saw her.
45:03Phantom ring floating desperately wanting to hug someone, but passing by.
45:10Grace, what are you thinking?
45:12Dad gave me a soda.
45:15I smiled, just right.
45:16I am grateful.
45:17To be alive, to be with you.
45:21Mom hugged me.
45:23Silly girl, we're the lucky ones.
45:26Puddy chased the waves, barking happily.
45:29I looked at my parents, at my dog.
45:32My future.
45:34I finally understood.
45:35The suffering of my past life taught me to treasure this one.
45:39Pain taught me what love truly means.
45:43He didn't need to prove that he was no longer a liar.
45:46I didn't have to fear the red lights.
45:48I could laugh.
45:50Cry, speak freely.
45:53I had parents who loved me.
45:54A best friend, a healthy body, a bright future.
46:00This was the life I died longing for.
46:03That night I wrote in my diary.
46:05Not the blood-stained confessions of my former life.
46:08This was filled with happiness.
46:11Growth, love.
46:14I wrote today, I saw the ocean.
46:17It's enormous.
46:20Blue free, I thought about my past self.
46:25That little girl locked in a room, desperate to be loved.
46:29She would never have believed she could be so happy.
46:33Mom and Dad love me.
46:35They taught me honesty and courage.
46:38Annie is my best friend now.
46:40She is confident and bright.
46:42Grandma is healthy.
46:44He calls me often.
46:47Woody is still a fool, always pushing my hand.
46:51I don't hate anyone anymore.
46:53Don't cling to the past.
46:56Those painful memories are like footprints in the sand.
46:59Washed by the waves.
47:02But they taught me to appreciate every step forward.
47:05I know that my old mom, sister, and dad got what they deserved.
47:10And finally I was free.
47:13I found true freedom.
47:15I don't want to see them again.
47:17I don't want to relive that life.
47:20I just want to say thank you, Sterling.
47:23Simple.
47:28The ocean was beautiful.
47:30Life was beautiful.
47:33I closed my diary.
47:35I looked out the hotel window.
47:37The moonlight shone on the water like Mill Street.
47:40Woody's breathing was soft and steady beside me.
47:45I smiled.
47:46In this life I finally became who I wanted to be.
47:51No red lights, no hunger, no lies.
47:55Only love.
47:57Freedom.
47:59Happiness.
48:01And those scars from my past became badges of survival, reminders that no matter how much darkness you face.
48:09If you do not give up on the light, you will find your way to warmth, to freedom.
48:16The road ahead is long, but everyone walks with courage and joy.
48:23Towards something even brighter.
48:25Towards something or minute.
48:26Oh, towards something.
48:26You can do it wrong.
48:26A,
Comments