Angelo and Ashley look at each other. they despise their father for being irresponsible but there is nothing they can do about it, He became more intolerable when their mother left to find food for them, and money to buy medicine for their youngest brother, Adrian.
After their mother left that night, she failed to return, they tried to look for her, but they can't find her. It's like she vanished into thin air, just like that....
Their father said , she run away with another man, because she can no longer stand the poverty anymore... Even though he has no proof of that, he keep on cursing their mother's name everyday, specially when he is drunk.
Ever since they were young, they never saw their father worked. their mother is the one working earning money to buy food for them.
she accepts laundry from the neighbours, she sometimes clean their neighbours house, their oldest sister Angel help her do the laundry and take care of them and their little brother Adrian.
Their father do nothing all day but drink himself to sleep. he curse at them when they are playing near the house and blame them and their mother for all the bad luck that he encountered.
Before morning, around two in the morning they heard the door open again, they heard their father singing as he walked inside the house, he keep on singing and mumbling incoherent words as he lay on his bed until he fall asleep.
Ashley and Angelo stayed awake all night, patiently waiting for their oldest sister, Angel to come home.
At the dark corner of the alley Angel woke up up from the cold that seeping through her bones, she struggled to get up, feeling pain all over her body, she picked up the jacket that the man threw at her and put it on her shoulder.......
As she struggled to walk limping, she felt the pain worsening.......
but she struggled to pushed through.... she need to go home to her sister and brother, they must be sick worried about her...
ANGEL : GOD HELP ME..... she mumbled as she look up at the sky, praying for strength....
As she walked limping down the damped cobbled stone pavement slowly, she finally reached the front of their house.....
She knocked on the door calling....
ANGEL : father........ Ashley........
Angelo........
she called and knock at the same time bearing the cold she felt.....
Ashley and Angelo hurriedly run to the door, hastily opening it..... as they opened the door and saw their oldest sister standing in front of it. they both hugged her.......
They help Angel to walk to get inside the house, seeing that she is limping. But before they could get inside.......
They heard their father's loud slurred voice.....
GASTON : where have you been??? You've been out all night!!! is this the kind of thing you want your siblings to learn from you????
Look at yourself!!! and who's jacket is this???
You were out all night flirting and acting like a whore just like your mother???
ANGEL : father....... no...... it's not my fault!!!! I'm raped I've been raped!!! Angel cried trying to explain, but her father wouldn't listen. he slapped her hard knocking her off her feet.....
Angel crouch down weeping, almost loosing her consciousness again.
GASTON : YOU LIAR!!!! YOU'RE JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER !!!! A BITCH!!!! YOU'RE A SLUT LIKE HER!!! I DON'T WANT SOMEONE LIKE YOU IN MY HOUSE!!!!
her father yelled pointing his finger at her, cursing her like she is not his daughter.....