But now even the hate and contempt in their eyes were barely hidden. It got so bad that he was forced to negotiate with his youngest sister to help him.
Besides his mother Christy, who would always try to feed him, only his big sisters Ada and Belle were occasionally tasked to feed him.
Though Ada and Belle had bigger hearts and strived to be just like their mother. Tim instead became the black sheep in the family, he would always put out his frustration on his food, He would eat half after wiping his mouth clean, and leave the rest for Tobi to eat.
Belle, the younger sister whose health was worsened by the day, would be taunted by Tim calling her insulting names anytime she made a minor mistake.
He would often wonder about when she would finally die, he was already sick and tired of adding little portions of his mother special poison in her food, this time he was pondering what a larger amount would do to her, even still he couldn't overdo it with the fear of the being caught.
Now she could barely make an exaggerated walk, not to talk of proper feeding. Leading to their parent always paying extra attention to her.
There was a time she had felt nauseous during dinner and puked out her food, sending the house in panicked. His parents barely knew what was going, and would try comfort to her saying it was just a matter of time before the healing fairy takes her illness away.
They felt worried and depressed at the same, whenever they saw Belle like that. They could not understand why her condition was not improving, and if not for the recent cold season she would have already been taken to her usual treatment.
It was winter, so there was usually not much work to do. Hence there wasn't an occasion to restock their food supplies, and they had to last until the summer.
It was the toughest time of the year for all of them, since they could hardly make any sales, and the food was meant not only for them but partly shared for their livestock.
Recently, Ada would always come back home with a frown and complain. To the point, Tobi would hear his mother sobbing.
Whenever Ada or Tim went out and returned their faces were always grim and dampen. Tobi felt a bit odd about Tim calling a Leech that was stealing away his life, but he could do nothing, not even vent out his frustration.
As soon as his mother or big sister return, he would try to cheer them up. By doing his best baby impression by making raspberry screeched, while sometimes he would giggle with little mouth willy on his face, they would smile and play with him before returning to their daily routine.
Tobi had never cried unless he needed to be fed or when Tim tried changing his diaper. But he felt really bad almost to the point of crying, knowing fully well that he could be the cause behind their sad faces, he could do nothing but watch them suffer silently, all these made him feel useless.
On that particular day, both his parents and Ada were out. Few of their livestock seemed to be suffering from parasitic pests. Leaving Belle the younger sister, Tobi, and Tim at home to look over them.
Meanwhile, Tobi sighed as he closed the system panel, at the moment except for Tim he was the only one at home. That was after completing one round of practicing the meditation technique, and of course, he knew he wouldn't be gaining any sort of attributes points throughout the following weeks even still Tobi decided to just cultivate it.
At this moment Tobi noticed something, as turned to look at Tim intently.
"Shush! Don't you dare cry!"
Tim said as he stared at Tobi with a grin on his face, that could probably frighten a normal child. While Tobi had heard what he was saying, he pretended he didn't and ignored him since he was still a bit paranoid about the system.
"No daddy or b*tch in shining armor now, little four eyes imp!" He whispered as he walked closer to him, slowly Tim got closer to his cradle.
After his arrival, Tim slowly carried him, as he unwrapped him from his cloth, and while holding him gently he raised his hand and gave him a little spank on his butt to exact his revenge.
Tobi grunted a little while staring at the little devil incarnate in both rage and dismay.
'Do you really think just by spanking my a*s, would be enough to hurt me, you b*stard?' He thought, with what would be a smug grin on his baby face.
'Fine then, I might as well test my skills on you !' Tobi was about to open the system panel when he heard a knock on the door.
Tim felt his heart skip for a moment, he wasn't expecting that b*tch and her daughter or even his father, to come back home so quickly at least according to what he knew, nevertheless he still hurriedly wrap Tobi back up as well as putting him back into his cradle.
However, while he did all these he noticed the baby was staring at the door intensely, he barely care what the four eyes leech was looking at, or was based on the fact the b*tch in shining armor had arrived.
Tim cursed inwardly, he was already planning to increase the dose on Belle meal as revenge, for that b*tch and her daughter ruining his sweet moment when he realized the baby was holding onto his shirt tightly, but Tim couldn't care less since he was already pissed off and hit Tobi's hand away, he even ignored the four eyes leech raspberry babble words that sounded like.
'Don't open the door'. Was what Tim weirdly thought, it sounded like.
Just outside their house, beside the door. The winter wind blew loudly, as the sound of someone knocking kept on resounding. However, Tobi knew what or who to be precise was knocking wasn't Christopher, Christy, or Ada.
However, he still looked towards the door apprehensively.
After Tim arrived at the doorpost, he did a taunting impression toward Tobi, before opening the door.
As Tim opened the door, he could feel his heart fast pacing as his eyes slowly widened in shock as he realized something, it wasn't what he was expecting it to be.