The Fitness Coach Mother Broke Her Daughter With A Watch Chapter 06

“What is it?”

The color drained from Mom’s face. Her lips trembled for a long time before she finally forced out a sentence.

“Her active calories shouldn’t be this high.”

There was a huge difference between the calories burned during exercise and the calories burned while doing nothing.

Anyone who looked closely would have noticed something was wrong.

Unfortunately, Mom had always cared only about whether we reached our total daily activity goal.

She never looked at what our calorie burn looked like during different parts of the day.

On top of that, she always said she wanted to build our independence and give us enough trust.

She said she treated us like big kids.

So she almost never stayed beside us while we trained.

Of course, she had no way of knowing whether the readings actually made sense.

Mom grabbed Mia’s hand.

“Mia, tell me the truth. Have you been following the plan and training properly every day?”

She was too anxious and used too much force.

Mia was in pain and terrified. She burst into tears and could not answer at all.

The two officers immediately stopped Mom.

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“Calm down! She’s still a child. Don’t scare her.”

Only when the officers stopped her did Mom let go.

She rubbed her face, took several deep breaths, and lowered her voice before asking Mia again.

“Mia, tell me, okay? I won’t blame you.”

Mia sobbed, still unable to get out a complete sentence.

Mom was frantic, and tears had begun to gather in her eyes.

She rushed straight out of the office and ran toward the track field.

At the police tape, she was stopped by the officers.

She could not take even half a step closer.

All she could do was watch me lying less than fifteen feet away.

There was a pool of blood beneath my head, staining the white collar of my shirt red.

My face was impossibly pale, and there was not a single drop of sweat on my forehead.

Mom’s legs went weak, and she collapsed onto the ground.

Again and again, she called my name.

“Chloe? Chloe Parker! Get up!”

“Come on. It’s so hot out here, and you’re making all these officers and adults go to so much trouble for you. That isn’t right.”

“I’ll back down, okay? You win.”

“Stop being mad. From now on, you can do whatever you want, and I won’t push you anymore, okay?”

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“Chloe, open your eyes and look at me. Stop pretending…”

Her voice shifted from a command into something weaker and weaker.

Then it softened into the coaxing tone someone would use with a child before finally turning into pleading.

Ever since I had gotten sick, this was the scene I had imagined countless times: Mom coaxing me gently.

In the past, Mom would say, “Fine, do whatever you want from now on.”

But back then, her words always carried more anger than comfort.

The more she said it, the less I dared to stop training.

I was afraid Mom would really stop wanting me.

But now, even if she spoke to me gently, I would not open my eyes.

I could not open them anymore.

Mom’s tears kept falling.

No matter how the officers tried to persuade her, she refused to leave.

Half an hour later, Dad arrived at the school too.

At a glance, he found Mom and me on the empty track field.

He rushed toward us in long strides.

When he saw me lying on the ground, the man who almost never cried had red eyes.

He yanked Mom up from the ground and shook her by the shoulders.

“What the hell happened? Give me an explanation!”

“Didn’t you say your plans were all scientific?”

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“When Chloe kept missing her goals again and again, didn’t you say you wouldn’t push her anymore?”

“What did you do to her?”

“And you didn’t even know she was dead! When the police contacted me, they told me the school nurse had called it in!”

The string of questions pressed down on Mom until she could hardly breathe.

She thought of everything she had done that day, and guilt nearly swallowed her whole.

She covered her face, tears slipping through her fingers, unable to say a single word.

One of the officers who had first started the investigation came over to them.

“We’ve calmed the child down. We need a parent present for a brief interview.”