Looking back, I wish I just gone to bed like mom asked if not begged me to, but I just couldn't sleep as hard as I tried. So, I got out of bed and so as not to draw unnecessary attention, went down stairs without turning on the lights. maybe I should have.
"How long do you expect me to keep feeding that thing you call a son?'' I heard the man I grew up calling my father shout to a crying someone I could only imagine to be my mother.
"he's our son Kane not just mine'' My mom screamed still crying. "why are talking this way?''
"Shut up you slut. He looks nothing like me, no one in my or your family looks like him. so the nonsense you are spiting at me start telling me the truth''.
Mia was tongue tied as she looked at her husband of 20 years who eye were flaming with the angry fires of hell. she had never been unfaithful to her husband and shocked by his outrageous behaviour.
" I don't know what you are talking about Kane. I ...''
"Shut up'' Kane shouted followed by a loud slapping sound which shocked both the receiver of the slap and the child behind the door.
" Now start telling me who you made that brat with behind my back"
" You slapped me? Why?''
"You have the nerve to ask me that you hore"
Mia couldn't believe her husband had lifted his hand against her and neither did the now frightened child behind the door. What had happened to him? What had gotten into him?
"If you don't tell me the truth right now, I'll kill you and that dastardly son of yours you me''
Kane shouted at his now trembling wife. if the slut thought she could take him for a fool she was dead wrong.
"He's your son Kane, I.... agh.... no .... please''
Kane saw red as he put blow after blow on his wife, ignoring the fact that she had been through thick and thin with him and the presence of their now screaming 12 years old son as he beats his wife to unconsciousness. Before her eyes closed she saw her son running to her with fear and confusion in his young eyes as he busterd into the room following his mother's screams.
"Dad, what are you doing to mom? please stop.''
"no'' she said weakly as darkness closed all around her.
"Star, Star, wake up. hey wake up, it's just a bad dream.''