Needed - Wanted

Everyone's eyes were fixated on me and no one seemed to want to be present.

"We gathered here today not because we wanted to discuss fucked-up individuals treating people-- young people as something even worse than livestock but because we needed to..."

I paused for a moment to briefly sigh and everyone did the same.

"Earlier-- The past few days… I received a confession from one of their-- the kids we're taking care of that she witnessed her parents doing something really 'unusual' to her younger brother…"

I paused for the second time and I saw Kaley looking down while tightly clutching her arm with her right hand. At the same time, everyone had their own way of suppressing what they were feeling from hearing the words coming out of my mouth.