The Truth

Cheung Chun Man Benjamin (4D)

‘Choo-choo’. A car passed at a high speed. The piercing sound produced by the engine cleft the silence of the street. As the traffic light turned red, the sports car stopped. ‘The man on the car must be a wealthy man’ I murmured to myself. When I looked closely, the man was familiar. He’s my brother! I blinked in astonishment and could not believe my eyes. I scratched my head and tried to work out what was going on. It’s hallucination. It’s just HALLUCINATION! It’s impossible for my brother to own such an expensive car as he’s still searching for a job. I took a deep breath and took out my phone from the bag. I tried to call him. ‘Hey Peter, How’re you doing lately?’ I asked earnestly. ‘I’ve found a job already and let’s have dinner tomorrow ‘ He replied joyfully.

I met him in the Peninsula Hotel where I saw him on the car yesterday. I looked at the watch impatiently again and again. A man who wore a brand new suit came to me. He’s full of confidence. Why did he completely change to be another person? I can’t believe it at all and I winkled my forehead. ‘ Rang … Rang …’ As we were having dinner in the gorgeous restaurant, his phone rang. ‘Stupid! No one’s ever got rich being sympathetic, be determined, you’re gonna take action!’ he roared. I sat up with a jerk after hearing this. I told him what I had seen yesterday but he paid the bill and left without any reply. What made him a rich man? Did he do something bad? I decided to find out the truth!

The next day, I went to Peter’s apartment very early in the morning. I hid somewhere nearby, making sure that he couldn’t discover me. As he got on his sports car, I called a taxi to follow him. He’s going to Lok Ma Chau and he crossed the border to Shenzhen. Fortunately, I had brought my ID card so that I could continue to trace him. I trudged across the road and finally reached a building which looked like a factory. Did he produce something illegally? What’s inside the factory?

Some muscular men who were holding butcher’s knives came out from the factory. Suddenly, someone tapped me on the shoulder and made me jump. Peter discovered that I was hiding behind a gigantic tree. He walked towards me. ‘It seems that … I can’t … hide it from you… anymore!’ he stammered, kept staring at me. I stood still, not knowing what to do. He’s going to show me the business he engaged in. I squeezed my eyes shut and pray, hoping it was something good.

‘Ouch…Ahh…Please let us go!’ the children screamed and begged. These children inside the factory were all aged below ten, they were nailed in the bed that they couldn’t even move. There were altogether 100 children. My body was shaking uncontrollably. ‘Children’s organs are expensive, aren’t they?’ A man gossiped. My brother told me that the children’s hearts, livers, spleens, lungs, kidneys were being taken out, that’s why the men were holding butchers’ knives. They were skinned alive. The children were abducted from the remote area in China. ‘Selling children’s organs can help me to earn a promising return’ he said, seriously. A man in distant was killing a little girl, when a knife was inserted into her body, the blood spilled, some even stained on my clothes. The horrible sight made my blood run cold. My brother would never do that! My brother would NEVER EVER do that! I kept persuading myself it’s a nightmare but I failed. ‘Don’t you know this is a cruel and inhumane practice? Stop it! I don’t want to associate you with devil!’ I yelled loudly, my eyes were full of fire. I was sure I would faint if I stayed here for even one more second. So I dashed out of the factory and tried to think of what to do next.

After I got back home, my mind was blank. Peter used to be a decent boy but now he … How come he could forget the human nature of being sympathetic? Do the innocent lives mean nothing to him? Money is everything in his eyes. I started to worry about myself. Would I be terminated because I knew the secret inside the factory? I bit my lips, took out my phone, hesitating.

Day after day, as I was reading the newspaper, I saw Peter on the front page. My spirits soared but there was something strange, he looked different again. This time, he’s wearing the police uniform! Oh My God! The article said that Peter had been an undercover to investigate the ‘organs factory’ in Mainland China, which meant the sports car, the money did not belong to him, he was still an honest person. That’s his real job! I cried happy tears and breathed a sigh of relief. ‘I’m sorry for not being to explain everything to you before!’ Peter assured me that he had been and would always be my good brother.