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Chapter 5 - Manipulation

Robert told Bommy he was her father; Robert used to call himself her step-daddy even though Alicia never adopted Bommy, then when Alicia legally adopted Bommy, withholding the truth of Bommy's origins.

Years later, When Bommy was 3-years-old.

Robert called Bommy the step-child until Robert adopted Bommy when Bommy was five years old for legal visitations so Robert could conduct any future secret tests on Bommy in the case of Alicia divorcing him.

When Splice was 9, Bommy sat down, sipping a cup of herbal tea that was supposed to boost your immune system as all her meals do.

Robert unhooked the front door of their Hotelroom "233." Broke in, then yelped, "Bommy means Abomination!"

Bommy was in shock; Bommy dropped her tea and yelled, "No! I need that!" Bommy was holding it with both paws; Bommy was now feeling more comfortable using them.

Splice thought Bommy was a creative way of Spelling Bonnie. Splice often used it to pun Her mother's name with mommy because "Bommy" and "Mommy" rhymed. Splice had no idea it meant "ABOMINATION."

Splice noticed the front door was lying outside the hotel room on the floor. When Robert unhooked it, Robert unhooked it from the hinges.

Urban Dictionary's top entry for Bougie defines it thus: "Aspiring to be a higher class than one is. Derived from bourgeois - meaning middle/upper class, traditionally despised by communists." So in modern-day English, someone Bougie is creating an air of wealth or upper-class status — whether true or not.

Bommy looked at the door, then yelled, "MY DOOR!" African-Americans didn't miss Bommy, but she looked at that door with the worst side eye, then at Robert, she yelled, "OH MY GOSH, THE FLUFF? MY DOOR!" Bommy was BOUGIE due to Alicia being too Bougie with the riches. Things like people breaking your excellent door that TECHNICALLY belongs to the hotel you live in cause the Bougie to "bouge" out.

Bommy got up and started yelling all kinds of obscenities at Robert, and this was the first time Bommy had ever popped off at Robert. Robert only broke into her hotel room and yelled those mean things for fun.

Bommy yelled out, "MY DOOR, HOW COULD YOU? MY FRICKIN' DOOR!" As she waved her paws in the air like she had lost her pet dog,

Bommy picked up a toy rock Splice was playing with, snatching it from her little child's hands, and then threw it at Robert.

Bommy grabbed his toupee, a small wig or artificial hairpiece is worn to cover a bald spot.

Bommy pulled his toupee off and threw it on top of the door he pulled off.

Splice was the Black human child staring at it all in complete shock.

Splice said "Bougie!" In a mocking tone of voice to joke about her adoptive mom's behavior as her adoptive mom, Bommy, throws a toy phone at Robert.

Bommy yelled in the most Bougie, mixed French-Greek accent, "You ignorant, unknowledgeable, uneducated, simpleminded, imbecile, obtuse, doltish, senseless, cretinous MAN OF A BEAST!" To Robert.

All of those things mean "stupid" or "uneducated."

Bommy shouted, "You asinine man!" To Robert.

"asinine" means "extremely stupid or foolish."

Bommy got so mad that Bommy freaked out.

Bommy got up, ran to her room, got a bat, and came back downstairs, and this was all happening because she was a pushover. So all of the mistreatment was boiling over. It was all kind of, At the moment, Fallin' out the pot.

Bommy started swinging the bat at Robert, who screamed in terror and escaped by running away.

Splice complained, "This situation is the epitome of 'If you don't want nothin', don't start nothin'."

Did you know that, in THIS case, the word "epitome" means "a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type?"

Bommy called the Hotel Manager, and the manager kicked Robert out for doing this to the hotel room. Splice told the manager because She called him, saying, "That man broke into our room and insulted my mommy, he called her an abomination, he's an evil man, he broke the door, I don't know why!"

The manager asked, "Did you let him in?" So, Splice yelled, "If I let him in, would I be calling you right now? If I did, he wouldn't have to break into our room, and he broke in without our consent! How fluff can you break into somebody's house with their CONSENT TO DO SO, AND WHY WOULD THEY LET YOU? THEY COULD JUST OPEN THE DOOR LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE!" Bommy was too busy to call the manager. Bommy was busy calling the police.

The manager asked, "Why don't you tell the policemen?" Then, in a soft voice to talk to the child because Splice sounded like a child, Splice yelled, "Mommy's doing that. I need someone to fix the door and eliminate the intruder in hotel room 232!"

Robert was arrested, in a holding cell for 180 days, and was fined $200.

Since they lived in Houston, Texas, of all places, this was the Consequence of breaking Texas.

A typical criminal trespass charge is a Class B misdemeanor, carrying a potential penalty of 180 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.

Robert has been to jail due to his genetic modification research and got bailed out by his loving wife, Alicia, and he's seen worse sentences than 180 days. The only thing that hurts him is the fines.

Three years later.

When Bommy was 32 years old, and Splice was a fully Human, African-American, Female 12-year-old.

Splice Always knew there was manipulation on Robert's part, so it was no surprise that Robert had a hold on Bommy.

Splice was walking home from school, something she was allowed to do due to being a fully human clone.

Splice got home and saw Bommy arguing with Robert on the front porch of their new house, and the place was beautiful; it was a small cottage with flowers growing all around.

Bommy yelled, "I moved here, away from the hotel, to get away from you, father!" In vexation.

This means that Bommy was annoyed, frustrated, AND worried.

Bommy yells, "You need to stay home, FATHER; NOBODY, I mean, NOBODY wants YOU HERE on MY PROPERTY!" In a fury, RAGE, and perturbation, which means "anxiety; mental uneasiness."

Bommy slaps him, then yells, "Please, go home! Go home, now!"

Splice was perplexed. Bommy made sure she didn't give HIM the address to their PEACEFUL COTTAGE.

Bommy pulled him away from the sight, perturbing Robert, making him scream and shout, "Oh come on, let me come in!" So, Bommy yelled, "HECK NO!" Then Bommy threw him on the floor.

Splice ran to the cottage and went inside the cabin.

The Next day, Bommy was reading a magazine as Splice was forced to do her homework or all her toys would be trashed.

Bommy got a phone call. Bommy yelped, "Oh gosh, who is it?" In anger, she was enjoying that bit about women's fitness.

Bommy picked up the phone, saying, "I'm Bommy. If you came to give out hate Speech on Robertizens, all of you could go DIE!"

Robertizens are people created by Robert that were created outside of natural conception, like clones, genetically modified babies, chimeras, or children "Made from scratch," Which was just a bunch of genetic modification to make a fertilized embryo using his "Scratch Program."

Robert's voice quivered as he said, "Hi..." Using a phone, he built to make his voice sound like Alicia's. Bommy's heart beamed joyfully, and she yelled, "Oh, mother! How are you? Splice is doing fine." Bommy turns it on Speaker Phone.

Splice is listening in on the phone call. Robert posing as Alicia, says in Alicia's voice, "Hi, sweetie pie. Listen, I want you to return to the hotel. House Committee Votes To Continue Ban On Genetically Modified Babies, Tuesday to continue a federal ban on creating genetically modified babies in the United States. Robert is heartbroken."

Bommy was born in 1988 and was born in 2008. Currently, the year is 2020.

Splice shouted, "MOMMA, THAT HAPPENED A YEAR AGO!" At the top of her lungs.

Bommy says, "It's more awkward than you think to allow that man back in my life, mother..."

"Alicia," says, "I want you to let him visit. He wants to say sorry."

Bommy says, "I..." So, "Alicia" pleaded, "Please, baby, I'll love you forever."

Bommy nodded as Bommy grumbled, "Okay..."

Bommy hung up the phone, and Splice asked, "Why do they call the creations of Robert 'Robertizenz?" Then Bommy said to Splice, "Robertizenz with a Z at the end sounds better than Robertizens with an S at the end!"

Bommy told Splice to "Go to the mirror, turn around to where your back faces the mirror, pull your shirt up, and turn her head as far back as it can go!" Which was only to the left or right, but it couldn't go like an owl!

It could only go as far back as a typical human head could, and because of this, when Splice tried to do what Bommy said, Splice couldn't see the mirror. Splice could only see, like, 5 inches away from the wall, eyesight-wise.

Bommy was standing there in the doorway, watching. Splice yelled, "I can't see my back!" Bommy asks, "You can't? Let me go get the phone," Bommy turns to get her mobile phone.

Bommy takes a picture of Splice's lower back, just above her butt crack. Splice raised her shirt so that Bommy could do this.

Bommy said, "Okay, look at the photo." Splice took the phone and looked at a picture. There was an old burn mark. A GIANT BURN MARK THAT READ, WITH QUOTATIONS WRITTEN ON IT IN BURNS, "ROBERTIZENS"

Bommy says, "We get branded at birth." Then Splice asks, "Branded? What does 'Branded' mean?"

Bommy said to Splice, "It's when someone takes a, really, really hot stick, well, no, it's when someone takes a stick and puts a hot metal that they burn in the fire, and then they press that hot metal using the stick up against a part of the flesh of an animal or person to burn a logo or something on the animal or person, that's what Branded is."

Splice looks at her in anger, and then Splice yells, "If he brands us at birth, doesn't that mean he just branded a newborn?" Then Bommy paused, then said, "Yup." As if she was kind of disgusted but also concerned.

To be continued.