During recess, little Melanie noticed that her teacher looked worried and restless while she talked to the other teachers in the faculty room. In the school ground, there seemed a commotion, too. Mothers who wait for their kids were busy buzzing and seemed restless, too.

After recess, the students, including Melanie went back to their room. Their teacher announced that they will be sent home earlier than the usual time. She also told the class that they have to tell them always when they wanted to pee. They are not supposed to leave the room unattended.

Since it was still early, little Melanie’s mother came late although not really late. She was always on time. It was the school’s decision to let the children go home ten minutes earlier that made her mother late. Melanie was left inside the clinic with the nurse while she waits.

When her mother came, she asked what the teacher had told her. “Honey, the teacher said that they caught a rapist inside the comfort room,” her mother answered nervously. Because of fear and the unusual expression in her mother’s face, Melanie did not even bother to ask what a rapist is.

On their way home, little Melanie could not erase the thought of a hairy monster, big, dark, with sharp teeth and claws. This was the rapist, she thought. She never bothered to ask her mother from then on in fear of the rapist. She never also bothered to go to the comfort room because of this monster in her mind. She peed in her seat always, everyday, until the school ends.