When Charlie went home from school, he liked to take the shortcut through the woods. It was quiet and peaceful, and when it was raining, he liked how the rain would gently fall through the leaves. He liked to walk by the tree where he had stabbed that bully, Adam, and then watched him bleed to death. Adam daily beat him up for his lunch money. Charlie told his father. And his father gave him a knife. They buried the body in the woods and nobody ever found it. Charlie smiled, patted the tree trunk, and continued his way home.