Chapter 157-179

It takes six days until he can go into his Dads room again to find more about the letters and their author. He reads five more letters which totally convince him that those letters were really written by his Mom and that she wasn´t dead but that she ran away to London with Mr Shear and that his Dad has lied to him all along. Chrristopher then starts to feel really sick and curles up in a ball and has another blackout. He has his memory back when his Dad comes into the house and calls out his name but he still doesn´t move so his Dad finds him like that curled up on the bed with all the letters around. When he sees that he starts to curse and desperately excuses himself for not telling him the truth and tells him how sorry he was and that he didn´t know how else to explain it to him. Christopher still doesn´t say anything like he is in trance so his Dad takes him into the bathroom to wash him because he had thrown up. There he promises Christopher that he would never lie to him again and confesses that he killed Wellington. That happened because he had an affair with Mrs Shears after Mr Shears left with his wife but he had the feeling that she cared more about the dog than for him and his son. And then that night after they had a big fight and Christophers Dad stepped out the house the dog started to attack him and at this moment all the anger in him just exploded and he grabbed the garden fork and just sticked it into the dog.
After Christopher finds out about that he decides to run away because if his Dad killed Wellington he might as well kill him, too. So he waits for his Dad to fall asleep, packs some stuff together including his rat Toby and goes out to hide behind the garden shed until he has decided what to do next.